The Spring Research Colloquium is CSEJ’s main event each year. Launched in 2007, it is the only intercollegiate research colloquium on campus.
The CSEJ Research Colloquium has hosted dozens of WSU presentations by faculty, graduate students and undergraduates at WSU Vancouver.
2016 events
Apr. 8
Collective for Social and Environmental Justice (CSEJ) Symposium on "Environmental and Climate Justice Practices"
Topics and speakers:
“Climate Justice in Indian Country”
Gail Small, Member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Professor of Native American Studies, Montana State University
“Trajectories of Injustices: Reflections on Three Decades of Radical Environmentalism”
Rik Scarce, Professor of Sociology, Skidmore College
“It Takes Roots: Frontline Communities at COP21 and Beyond”
Cindy Wiesner, National Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), Co-Chair, Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and the Our Power Campaign
2015 events
Apr. 3
"Black, Brown and Blue: Diverse Perspectives on Race Policing and Justice", Panel Discussion, WSU Vancouver
Panelists: Pat Escamilla, juvenile court administrator for Clark County, JoAnn Hardesty, president of NAACP Portland Chapter and consultant, Alexes Harris, associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington, James McElvain, chief of police for the City of Vancouver, Charles McGee, president and CEO of Black Parent Initiative. Facilitated by Clay Mosher, professor of sociology at WSU Vancouver.
2014 events
Oct. 7
“Ebola in Africa: Culture, Politics and Ecology”
Free public lecture by Barry Hewlett and Bonnie Hewlett, professors of anthropology and co-authors of the book “Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease.”
Eighth-annual Spring Research Colloquium
Feb. 6
- Free public lecture by Eric de Place, policy director for Sightline Institute in Seattle, “Climate Impacts of Fossil Fuel Exports in the Pacific Northwest”
- Free public lecture by Ian Urquhart, associate professor of political science at the University of Alberta, “Canada’s Tar Sands: Destination Anywhere?”
Feb. 20
- Film screening, “Antonia: A Chicana Story”
- Pavithra Narayanan, associate professor of English, “Indigenous Land Rights and Resistance”
- Research presentations by Wendy Olson, associate professor of English, “Appalachian Rhetorics of Resistance: Professing Environmental Justice in the Mountains,” and Paul Thiers, associate professor of political science, “Extreme Energy Extraction and Export: Local, National and Global Environmental Justice Implications”
March 5
Research presentations by Anthony Deringer, doctoral student, College of Education, and Susan Finley, associate professor, teaching and learning, “EcoAesthetics and Place-based Education”
April 23
Lecture by author Bill Carter on a proposed copper mine near Mount St. Helens.