Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice

Join us for a two-day series of panels, discussions, and film screenings to explore how reparative and restorative approaches can be applied to re-imagine environmental justice. Lunch will be provided and registration is required. This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available please register .

Image credit: Emebet A. Jigssa. (2023). Earth Satellite Image Imitation Abstract. https://icpac.medium.com/how-can-art-amplify-efforts-to-address-climate-change-7d775b261f08

Info: This panel will center on the ongoing Ecocide in the Middle East and will include discussions with anthropologist Kali Rubaii and scholar of Human Rights Shourideh Molavi.

Info: Join us for a a conversation with environmental activist and writer Diana McCaulay and writer Naomi Jackson.

Info: This panel explores environmental justice and legal frameworks with Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey's Commissioner of Environmental Protection; Maya van Rossum, founder of the Green Amendment for the Generations Movement; and Quinn Yeargain, Professor of the Law of Democracy at Michigan State University.

Info: Screening of films Mann V. Ford and The Meaning of the Seed, and a conversation with directors Anita Bakshi and Micah Fink, and Chief Wayne Mann. This panel will be moderated by Jack Tchen.

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