04/08/2022
SUNY Cortland’s Clark Center for Global Engagement will host two virtual lectures in the weeks surrounding Earth Day, continuing its year-long theme on water security, environmental justice and climate change.
The series also is sponsored by the university’s International Studies Program with support from a Campus Artist and Lecture Series Grant. The online events are free and open to the public.
“The talks are all a part of a general goal of raising global awareness and alerting audiences to different ways to think about social justice,” said Professor of History Scott Moranda, the Clark Center’s acting director.
Both lectures will explore how inequalities of gender, class and race shape access to clean drinking water and the protection of communities from climate-induced flooding and sea-level rise.
Farhana Sultana, a faculty member in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, will present on “Water, Politics, and Climate Justice,” at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13.
Sultana, an associate professor in the Maxwell School’s Geography and the Environment Department, will address climate change’s meaning for water security, drawing on her own research and experience in South Asia. She will link water governance to social and environmental justice, with particular attention to how climate change disproportionally affects marginalized populations.
Sultana also serves as research director for environmental conflicts and collaboration within the Maxwell School’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration.
After beginning her career focused on water politics and economic development in Bangladesh, she has become an internationally recognized scholar of political ecology, water governance, post-colonial development, social and environmental justice, climate change and feminism at a global scale.
For more information, contact Moranda at 607-753-2052.
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, an associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo and its Community for Global Health Equity, will offer a seminar on the “Water-Land-Health Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa” at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27.
Trained in urban and regional planning and institutional economics, Boamah seeks to understand and reform the planning processes and institutional structures that impede and ‘weaponize’ planning interventions against historically marginalized communities. His work focuses on identifying the institutional drivers of land, water, food and housing inequities in sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S. and pursuing reform based on designing flexible and learning-based planning institutions.
Boamah’s research has been published in some of the world’s leading planning and cross-disciplinary journals, including Planning Theory, Applied Geography and Big Data and Society. He currently advises and works with the World Health Organization’s Urban Health Unit on the development of an implementation toolkit for communities and governments as part of the recently launched WHO Housing and Health Guidelines.
For more information, contact Bekeh Ukelina or Moranda.
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