Environmental Justice House Course

Year Initiated: Fall 2020

Members of the UEU, Duke Climate Coalition, and Environmental Alliance as well as other passionate students across Duke have come together to create a house course focusing on environmental justice issues within North Carolina: HOUSECS 59 -10, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Available Fall 2021, this house course aims to provide students with a strong understanding of the connections between environmental justice internationally and within the United States. This course is set up as a series of guest lectures given by prominent academics and environmental justice advocates as well as small group discussions. It is a deep dive into the relationship between people, culture, justice, and the environment. It touches upon environmental racism in infrastructure, agriculture, health, and imperialism in the hope to amplify the voices and experiences of the diverse cultures, races, and identities fighting on the front lines to address these issues globally.

Class sessions meet on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30 PM EST.

This class doubles as an environmental justice webinar series open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members. Webinars take place on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:00 PM EST. A schedule for the series is available below!

For those who are not available at the scheduled webinar time but would still like to learn from our speakers, webinar recordings are available below or here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0DNaSNetzSEkLWAysAV_w/videos

2021 Syllabus

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Webinar Recordings

59:43

John Paul Jose | Global Environmental Justice and Agriculture in India

In this talk, we will hear from activist and organizer John Paul Jose on the connections between justice, climate, and agriculture in India. John has been a Fridays For Future youth leader, a member of the Generation Climate Hub through the New York Times, and served as a Youth Ambassador for the High Seas Alliance. In his presentation, John will dive into the history of environmental justice in India, current conflicts creating injustice, and how climate change exacerbates these issues.

58:40

Bruce Lindsay | Water Rights and Traditional Owners in Australia

At this webinar, we hear Dr. Bruce Lindsay share his work on water rights for First Nations peoples and efforts to expand the concept of land management to include cultural and spiritual connection to land. Bruce is a senior lawyer and ecosystems program lead at Environmental Justice Australia. Since 2015 Bruce has advised Indigenous peak bodies and Traditional Owners in relation to water rights, especially in the Murray Darling Basin.

01:01:16

Global Environmental Justice and Health Panel with Diana McCaulay and Dr. Bill Pan

We will hear from Dr. William Pan and Diana McCaulay in this Global Environmental Justice and Health Panel, sponsored by Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican writer and environmental activist. She is the founder of the Jamaica Environment Trust, one of the island’s strongest non profit organizations, now in its 30th year. William Pan is the Elizabeth Brooks Reid and Whitelaw Reid Associate Professor of Population Studies and Global Environmental Health at Duke University with joint appointments in the Duke Global Health Institute and Nicholas School of Environment. He leads research that addresses human, environmental and health dynamics, including artisanal gold mining and mercury exposure, and climate/land use change and malaria.

Webinar Schedule