Talk Announcement: Contaminated Without Consent: A Human Rights Approach to the Environment

As part of the Fisher Center 2005 Lecture Series (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), there will be a lecture Wednesday, February 16 by Sandra Steingraber on human rights and the environment. The lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library, on Pulteney Street, on the HWS campus. Click permalink for more...From the HWS website:

Ecologist, author and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links between cancer and reproductive health. As a biologist and a writer, Steingraber researches environmental contamination and cancer by following connections between “objects we use and the places they come from.” For Steingraber, the environment includes human bodies, with a focus on women and reproduction. Her research and writing dovetail in her commitment to changing practices of manufacturing and of consumption, from industry through to agriculture. Connecting poetry and biology, research and writing, her collected works have been described as “an intricate weaving of scientific data, personal stories, and an intensely lyrical style.” Currently an interdisciplinary distinguished visiting scholar at Ithaca College, Steingraber has been on faculty at Cornell University, a fellow at the University of Illinois and at Radcliffe, and served on President Clinton’s National Action Plan on Breast Cancer.

Available Readings: Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment; Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood; Post-Diagnosis; co-author of The Spoils of Famine

Co-sponsored with Writers Reading

Sandra Steingraber