2019-20 Lecture Series
Bread and Water: Access, Belonging, and Environmental Justice in the City
Bread and Water: Access, Belonging, and Environmental Justice in the City
2019-20 Humanities Center Public Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by CMU’s Humanities Center and Department of History; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Waverly Duck, "A Community Study of a Food Oasis in the East End of Pittsburgh"
Kedia-Tayur Room, 4242 Tepper Quad
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Heather O’Leary, "Roti Paani Kha Lena: Politics of ‘Taking’ Bread and Water in Urban India"
Kedia-Tayur Room, 4242 Tepper Quad
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Stephanie Boddie, "Food and Everyday Life in Pittsburgh"
In light of public health concerns about the COVID-19 virus, this event has been canceled.
FALL 2019
Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 4:30pm
Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Danforth Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Cohon University Center
Additional Co-Sponsors: University Lecture Series and the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 4:30pm
Farhana Sultana, "Human Right to Water and Water Justice"
Danforth Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Cohon University Center
Additional Co-Sponsor: the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 4:30pm
Raul Pacheco-Vega, "Urban Water Governance as a Wicked Problem: Opportunities and Challenges to Implement the Human Right to Water in a Rapidly Changing World"
Danforth Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Cohon University Center
Additional Co-Sponsor: the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Read more about Bread and Water: Access, Belonging, and Environmental Justice in the City.
- Fall 2019 Photo: Water is Life by: Maria Romero / Las Fotos Project, Mural by: Christi Belcourt
- Spring 2020 Photo: Urban Egypt by: Abigail Owen
- Some events, co-sponsored by CMU's Humanities Center, University Lecture Series, Department of History, and Civil & Environmental Engineering; the Univeristy of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation