WSU’s Interdisciplinary Social Justice Conference, April 21 & 22, 2023
Online
Free to attend
Conference Details and Registration Link:
All sessions available on Zoom | Complete program available on registration (free)
About the event
Theme: Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections
This year’s conference features panels on:
- The Historic 1982 Salmon Scam: Criminalization and Exoneration of Treaty Fisher People
- The role of Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge (ITECK) in Decolonizing Academia and Nurturing Healthy Futures Through First Foods and Plant Relatives
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, Fossil Fuels, and a Case for Divestment, Reinvestment, and Reparations
- A screening and discussion of Atomic Bamboozle, the False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance
- Black-Indigenous Solidarity: from AIM and the Black Panthers to Standing Rock and the George Floyd Uprising
- The Erasure of Historically Under-represented Communities in the Academy
- Indigenous Rights and Food Sovereignty as Environmental Justice
- Speaking to the Gap: Health Disparities and Mortality in Indian Country
- Centering Culture in Climate Resilience