Carnegie Mellon University

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

SPRING 2020

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

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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, 2​nd​ Floor, Cohon University Center
Additional Co-Sponsors: University Lecture Series and the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 4:30pm
Farhana Sultana, "Human Right to Water and Water Justice"
Danforth Conference Room, 2​nd​ Floor, Cohon University Center
Additional Co-Sponsor: the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh

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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, 2​nd​ Floor, Cohon University Center
Additional Co-Sponsor: the Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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