The Scripps College Humanities Institute will present Social Movements and the Use of Public Space on Thursday, September 20 at 4:15 in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons as part of their fall Humanities Institute Symposium, New Social Geographies and the Politics of Space. Guest lecturers include: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of California, Berkeley, Political Geographies of Recognition in the Age of Human Sacrifice; Joseph Nevins, University of California, Berkeley, Political Activism, the Human Rights of "Illegal" Immigrants, and the Bounding of National Space; and Laura Pulido, University of Southern California, Regional Racial Hierarchies and Racial Politics. Guest lecturers will present small group seminars on Friday.
The Fall 2001 program will be devoted to the study of new social geographies, including the contemporary formation and uses of public space, the public sphere and new or alternative media, grassroots ecological movements and the politics of environmental degradation and conservation. Speakers and roundtables will focus on the impact of postmodern social geography on the theorization and study of culture; on the ways in which social movements organize and communicate in new urban spaces or through the virtual spaces provided by new and alternative media; and on the contemporary rethinking of "nature" and the "environment" to take into account the differential impact of pollution and toxic waste on urban minority and third world communities. The program will consist of two roundtables and a conference.