Watch Goldy Gopher spin his head via zoom

How have energy exploration and exploitation shaped human history and the planet?
What stories have we told ourselves about coal, oil, and solar power?
What means exist to help us reach a just energy future?

12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Reflections on Coal: A Human History

• Barbara Freese (environmental attorney, energy policy analyst, and former Assistant Attorney General for Minnesota)

1:30-3:15 p.m. New Directions in Energy Humanities

On November 16, join Lucy Fortson, Professor and Associate Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy (Minnesota Instiute for Astrophysics). She is also a founding member of the Zooniverse project and the Board Chair of the Citizen Science Alliance. To learn more about Dr. Fortson's work and experience, please click here.

On November 9, join UROC Director of Research and Humphrey School Affiliate Faculty Member Lauren Martin for a workshop on Action Research. To learn more about Lauren's research and experience, please click here.

University of Minnesota faculty and staff from a range of disciplines will offer four publicly-engaged bootcamps in an exploration of how particular methodologies can be incorporated into teaching and research and how publicly-engaged scholarship can be applied to individual scholars' work.

The IAS is pleased to cosponsor this panel discussion, one part of the larger Race, Indigeneity, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (RIGS) Initiative's Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress Symposium, November 1-2, 2019.

For more information about the full slate of symposium events, please click here.

Speakers for the 2pm Universities and Historical Injustices panel include:

On October 26, join Michele Allen, Program Director for the UMN Medical School Program in Health Disparities Research for a workshop on Community Based Participatory Action Research. For more on Dr. Allen's research and experience, please click here.