The Center for Humanistic Innovation and Social Engagement in TMU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is offering a year-long International Speaker Series in Environmental Justice and Wellbeing to highlight intersections of equity, ecology, and health.
  These talks have been curated by the Center’s Director, anthropologist Dana E. Powell, Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities, who brings these colleagues to TMU to enliven discussion in the integrative and engaged humanities.
  The series features nine (9) in-person lectures by a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars of land, gender, education, indigeneity, and law, cohering around common concerns of environmental justice and its diverse embodiments.
  Each speaker will offer a different perspective and address a unique topic from their own social science and humanities research program, contributing to lively intellectual debate and emerging methodologies for critical social inquiry.
 The year’s inaugural lecture in November will be given by Taiwan’s current YuShan Fellow (R. Howitt) and the closing lecture (M. de la Cadena) in June will be in partnership with Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council, as part of a broader collaboration in environmental anthropology. All lectures will be in English; half will also include Mandarin (Y. Cho; C. Upton; S. Friedman; A. Zhang).
 All are open to the entire TMU community and the wider public. Contact Center assistant YuQing Wu for more information.
 The Center for Humanistic Innovation and Social Engagement at TMU is a member of the Health and Humanities Network of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), a global network of over 200 centers and institutes that fosters collaboration, advocacy, and grant-making to strengthen the humanities worldwide.