The Orfalea Center's Environmental Justice & Climate Justice Studies Research Cluster

Prof. Paul Amar, Director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, and our Orfalea Center team invite you to the second of a series of in-person gatherings and presentations to build community and celebrate the many accomplishments and future plans of the Orfalea Center Thematic Research Clusters.

This Friday at 3-4:30pm we will provide free food and unite many friendly colleagues and students. This event will be hosted at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies: 2320 Girvetz Hall (the building opposite from the Girvetz classroom building). This event features Dr. Richard Widick, and PhD students Noa Cykman and Somak Mukherjee. They will present the work of the Orfalea Center's Thematic Research Cluster and the Research Resources (see flyer below).

The Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Studies cluster is dedicated to activist-research related to ground struggles experienced and led by social movements, Indigenous tribes, and other communities, for advancing social and ecological justice in tandem. Teaching Resources and publications they have posted for public use on the Orfalea Center Website can be found here:

https://www.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/environmental-justice-climate-justice/

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH, 2023
GIRVETZ HALL 2320
FREE CATERED LUNCH

Dr. Widick will discuss his 2021 ethnographic film The Edmund Pettus Bridge to Climate Justice which he filmed while representing the University of California at the United Nations climate talks.
Noa Cykman will discuss her current project with Terra Vista, a settlement of landless rural workers’ movement in Brazil (MST).
Somak Mukherjee will talk about his research on the elemental imagination of urban spaces in culture.