“Climate of Concern” presenters include Sustainable South Bronx head Majora Carter, New Orleans Ninth Ward councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis, and Katrina National Justice Commissioner Iva Carruthers
United States of America (Press Release) October 11, 2007 --
The 18th annual Chicago Humanities Festival, “The Climate of Concern” (October 27 – November 11, 2007), focuses on the effects of global climate disruption at the level of community in such cities as Chicago. Public and private efforts at sustainability, adaptation, emergency preparedness, and “green” development, if they are to be just, fair, and mutually pursued, must take into account the interests and prospects of all members of the urban community. Three prominent Festival programs will address these very pressing issues which are often overlooked in the public discussion.
On Friday, Nov. 9, Majora Carter will discuss how environmentally responsible initiatives really happen, neighborhood by neighborhood. Carter has successfully mobilized grassroots environmental activism among New York City’s most disadvantaged and environmentally oppressed citizens, and is interested in finding new ways to connect environmental responsibility with poverty elimination through “green collar” job training and community education.
Carter will deliver the Festival’s annual Doris Conant Lecture on Women and Culture, joining the ranks of past Conant lecturers Germaine Greer, Erica Jong, and Azar Nafisi. The event is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 9; 6 – 7pm, at Northwestern University School of Law’s Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Avenue.
Cynthia Willard-Lewis will share her pointed observations about the state of things two years after Katrina. Her topics include environmental racism, environmental fairness and justice, and the quality of community services. Willard-Lewis lost her own home in the Katrina flood, but nevertheless acted heroically in the days and weeks following the devastation.
Willard-Lewis will give her talk on Sunday, November 4; 2 – 3pm at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place in Washington Park.
Immediately following her solo lecture, Willard-Lewis will join a panel discussion on Environmental Justice. Katrina has proven to be a galvanizing event in creating awareness of the inequities that exist in many urban areas when it comes to emergency response, environmental risk and exposure, and ongoing assistance and rebuilding.
The discussion will be led by Dr. Iva Carrutherswho is an active member and a lay leader of the Trinity United Church of Christ, and co-authored the Katrina National Justice Commission’s report “The Breach: Bearing Witness.” Other panelists include: Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, which recounts the human catastrophe resulting from the 1995 heat wave, Constance Pope, an ordained Methodist minister and currently a student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, and Roderick Hawkins, currently the Chicago Urban League’s director of communications. The “Environmental Justice” panel will begin at approximately 3pm. DuSable Museum is at 740 E. 56th Place in Washington Park.
On Friday, Nov. 9, Majora Carter will discuss how environmentally responsible initiatives really happen, neighborhood by neighborhood. Carter has successfully mobilized grassroots environmental activism among New York City’s most disadvantaged and environmentally oppressed citizens, and is interested in finding new ways to connect environmental responsibility with poverty elimination through “green collar” job training and community education.
Carter will deliver the Festival’s annual Doris Conant Lecture on Women and Culture, joining the ranks of past Conant lecturers Germaine Greer, Erica Jong, and Azar Nafisi. The event is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 9; 6 – 7pm, at Northwestern University School of Law’s Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Avenue.
Cynthia Willard-Lewis will share her pointed observations about the state of things two years after Katrina. Her topics include environmental racism, environmental fairness and justice, and the quality of community services. Willard-Lewis lost her own home in the Katrina flood, but nevertheless acted heroically in the days and weeks following the devastation.
Willard-Lewis will give her talk on Sunday, November 4; 2 – 3pm at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place in Washington Park.
Immediately following her solo lecture, Willard-Lewis will join a panel discussion on Environmental Justice. Katrina has proven to be a galvanizing event in creating awareness of the inequities that exist in many urban areas when it comes to emergency response, environmental risk and exposure, and ongoing assistance and rebuilding.
The discussion will be led by Dr. Iva Carrutherswho is an active member and a lay leader of the Trinity United Church of Christ, and co-authored the Katrina National Justice Commission’s report “The Breach: Bearing Witness.” Other panelists include: Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, which recounts the human catastrophe resulting from the 1995 heat wave, Constance Pope, an ordained Methodist minister and currently a student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, and Roderick Hawkins, currently the Chicago Urban League’s director of communications. The “Environmental Justice” panel will begin at approximately 3pm. DuSable Museum is at 740 E. 56th Place in Washington Park.
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