Photo by: Abigail Owen, Urban Egypt
Bread and Water: Access, Belonging, and Environmental Justice in the City
In light of public health concerns about the COVID-19 virus, 一本道无码 has canceled all spring lectures and events. See the original schedule below.
2019-20 Humanities Center Public Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by 一本道无码’s Humanities Center and Department of History; and the
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
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
In light of public health concerns about the COVID-19 virus, this event has been canceled.
Stephanie Boddie, "Food and Everyday Life in Pittsburgh"
Kedia-Tayur Room, 4242 Tepper Quad
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
Co-Sponsors: University Lecture Series and the Department 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
Co-Sponsors: the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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
Co-Sponsor: the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mellon Sawyer Seminar
For more information about the seminar, please contact Abigail Owen or John Soluri.
Co-Sponsored by the and the Department of History
SPRING 2020
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Simi Kang, Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow
Where’s the man who told the river what the river is for?”: Memory and environmental sacrifice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: Anu Jain, Executive Director, City of Pittsburgh Gender Equity Commission
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Waverly Duck, "A Community Study of a Food Oasis in the East End of Pittsburgh"
Pittsburgh-based Presenter: Chris Ivey, Filmmaker of East of Liberty gentrification series
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Leda Cooks, "Food Waste Recovery and Degrowth"
Pittsburgh-based Presenter: Dawn Plummer, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Food Policy Council
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Sarah Smiley, "Inequitable and Unjust Water Access in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Explaining Improvements and Continuing Challenges"
Pittsburgh-based Presenter”: Jason Beery, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst, Urbankind Institute”
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Heather O’Leary, "Roti Paani Kha Lena: Politics of ‘taking’ bread and water in Urban India."
Pittsburgh-based Presenter: Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Artist for Office of Public Art’s Environment, Health, and Public Art Initiative
Thursday, March 19, 2020
In light of public health concerns about the COVID-19 virus, this event has been canceled.
Stephanie Boddie, "Food and Everyday Life in Pittsburgh"
FALL 2019
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Anna Clark, author of
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: Aly Shaw, Environmental Justice Organizer, Our Water Campaign,
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Farhana Sultana, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, "The Human Right to Water"
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: , Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Jessica Barnes, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, "The Social Worlds of Bread in Cairo"
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: , Executive Director, Just Harvest
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Raul Pacheco-Vega, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Aguascalientes, Mexico "Bottled Water in Mexico: From the Privatization of Urban Water Supplies to the Commodification of Water Resources"
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: Pittsburgh-based Respondent:
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Peter Soppelsa, History Department, University of Oklahoma, "Inventing 'Water Shortage': Infrastructure and Affect in Paris’s Water Supply, 1880s–1910s"
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: , Executive Director, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Tomonori Sugimoto, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, "Taipei’s Indigenous Food Boom”
Pittsburgh-based Respondent: Raqueeb Bey, Founder and Founder and Executive Director, Black Urban Gardeners (BUGS-FPC)
Photo Credits:
- Fall 2019 Photo: Water is Life by: Maria Romero / Las Fotos Project, Mural by: Christi Belcourt
- Spring 2020 Photo: Urban Egypt by: Abigail Owen