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Mel Y. Chen: Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, University of California Berkeley
Michelle Murphy: Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto & Canada Research Chair in Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice
Moderated by Aren Z. Aizura: Associate Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Join two leading scholars in the environmental humanities for a conversation about intersectional and transnational approaches to ecological work. Professors Chen and Murphy have published books and articles that demonstrate the need to contend with gender, sexuality, race, colonialism, and disability in our thinking and approaches to science and technology, ecological devastation, and climate crisis. Both have specifically addressed toxicity and environmental exposures in their work. This public conversation between Professors Chen and Murphy invites audiences into current thinking at the cutting edge of the environmental humanities.
 

This event is part of the three-day Queer and Trans* Ecologies Symposium at the University of Minnesota, March 23–25, 2023. 

Presented by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Queer and Trans* Ecologies Interdisciplinary Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Critical Disability Studies Collective; the Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies (RIDGS); Environmental Humanities Initiative; Department of Anthropology; and Department of Geography. This activity is also supported by an Imagine Fund Special Events Grant, an initiative of the University of Minnesota Executive Vice President and Provost, established through a generous gift from the McKnight Foundation, and facilitated by the Institute for Advanced Study.