11th Annual American Studies Conference  - American Culture and the Natural World

The Fairfield University American Studies Program Presents, the 11^th Annual American Studies Conference, American Culture and the Natural World.

Bringing together the scholarship and environmental activism of Fairfield University undergraduate students and local community members, as well as featuring a keynote panel of distinguished scholars, this year’s conference considers how the mutually-constitutive relationship between human beings and the natural world has been shaped by “America”—as an evolving idea, culture, place, and/or political system.

Saturday, April 13, 2024, 12:45pm-7pm
Alumni House Brennan Room

12:45pm - Opening Remarks
 

1-3pm - Student Scholarly Panels

3-4:15pm - Local Environmental Activism Roundtable

4:30-6:00pm - Keynote Panel - Eco-ethics and Planetary Justice: Crossings, Contact, and Conflict

Jonathan Howard, PhD: Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University

Maria Montoya, PhD: Global Network Associate Professor of History at NYU

Brian Donahue, PhD: Emeritus, Professor of Environmental Studies, Brandeis University; American Environmental Historian

6-7pm - Reception featuring the Brian Torff Blues Band

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute, Departments of English, Politics, History, Sociology and Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program

Free And Open to the Public

Though not required, please register for this event.

For further information, please contact Dr. Peter Bayers, pbayers@fairfield.edu.