{"id":51708,"date":"2012-01-12T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=51708"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:55:57","slug":"mlk12-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/12\/mlk12-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Day workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a schedule of MLK Day workshops at Bates on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012:<\/p>\n<h3>Session I Workshops<br \/>\n2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Cost of Our Things: A Screening and Discussion of the film <em>Blood in the Mobile<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Charles Nero, Elizabeth Eames, Stephanie Kelley-Romano<br \/>\nAnthropology, Rhetoric, African American Studies and American Cultural Studies<em><br \/>\n(This workshop meets across both Sessions I and II)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>New Commons 221<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slow Melt: Environmental Injustice in the Vanishing Arctic<\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Loring &#8220;Danny&#8221; Danforth, Aslaug Asgeirsdottir and Sonja Pieck<br \/>\nAnthropology, Politics and Environmental Studies<br \/>\n<em>Pettengill G65<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ecological Citizenship and Global Justice<\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Julie McCabe &#8217;12 and Women and Gender Studies<br \/>\n<em>Hedge 106<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tribute to Wangari Maathai: African Environmentalist and Nobel Laureate<\/strong><br \/>\nSponsored by the Africana Club<br \/>\n<em>Pettengill G21<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Love, Women and Flowers&#8221; or Work, Exploitation and Toxicity<\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Faculty and students in the Spanish department<br \/>\n<em>This workshop meets across both Sessions I and II.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pettengill G52<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Civil Disobedience and the New Environmental Movement<\/strong><br \/>\nMeet filmmaker Josh Fox, director of the documentary<em> Gasland<\/em>, about the environmental damage caused by the natural-gas mining practice of hydraulic fracturing. (<em>Gasland<\/em> is being screened at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, in Olin Concert Hall.)<br \/>\nConvened by: Environmental Studies House<br \/>\n<em>Pettengill G10<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Session II Workshops<br \/>\n3:45 p.m.\u20135 p.m.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Screening and Discussion of <em>The Warriors of Qiugang: A Chinese Village Fights Back<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Xing Fan, Amanda Pierog \u201915, Reilly Bergin-Pugh \u201914, Leah Cole \u201912, Grace Haessler \u201812, Asian Studies<br \/>\n<em>Pettengill G21<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Re-imagining Community: A Sub-National Approach to the Interconnected Work of Environmental and Gender Justice<\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Douglas Kempner, Alanna Prince &#8217;13 and Women and Gender Studies<br \/>\nPanelists: Ben Chin &#8217;07, Nicola Wells, Nate Libby &#8217;07, Craig Saddlemire &#8217;07<br \/>\n<em>Roger Williams 118<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soul Jazz and Soul Food: &#8220;Cookin&#8217; &#8221; Jazz in the 1950s and 1960s<\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Tom Hayward and Dale E. Chapman<br \/>\n<em>Hedge 106<\/em><\/p>\n<p>C<strong>arbon Denial: What Is at Risk?<\/strong><br \/>\nConvened by: Jane Costlow, John Smedley, Laura Sewall, Julie Rosenbach, Lynne Lewis, Aslaug Asgeirsdottir<br \/>\nEnvironmental Studies, Physics, Economics, Politics, Harward Center and the Office of the Environmental Coordinator<br \/>\n<em>Pettengill G65<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a schedule of MLK Day workshops at Bates on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11009],"tags":[9502,5709],"class_list":["post-51708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-college","tag-environmental-justice","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51708"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51738,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708\/revisions\/51738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}