In follow up to last spring’s EMS Reads, which focused on Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, this semester’s EMS Reads speaker will bring the discussion home to EMS. Laura Pulido, Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at University of Oregon, will visit on Wednesday November 13 to talk about race and sustainability, helping us to better understand the costs of racism to climate and how white nationalism has become linked to climate obstruction. Dr. Pulido’s talk will be Wednesday, November 13 at 6:00 pm in Foster Auditorium, in the Paterno Library, with a reception to follow in the EMS Museum and Art Gallery, 6 Deike Building.
For more information, and a list of materials to read, listen to, or watch about Dr. Pulido, including her recent U.S. Senate subcommittee testimony and her address to the National Academy of Sciences on the topic, visit the EMS Reads Website EMS Reads | Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Additional information about Heather McGhee’s visit is available there, too.
Copies of The Sum of Us are still available to support EMS Reading groups. Books are available to check out through the EMS Library or contact Spencer Belnap swb5843@psu.edu in the offices of Educational Equity and Sustainability. So, gather your friends, start reading/watching/listening, and plan to attend Dr. Pulido’s talk and reception on November 13 to engage in the conversation!
This EMS Reads program is sponsored by EMS Educational Equity, EMS Sustainability, and the Department of Geography.
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