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[PAST EVENT] Black Ecology: Tidewater

April 17, 2025
7pm - 8:30pm
Location
Integrated Science Center (ISC), ISC1221
540 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
A serene landscape featuring a grassy hill with scattered trees under a golden sky. A person wearing a red garment walks near the trees. Black watercolor runs from the hill into the earth like roots.

The Environment & Sustainability Program (ENSP)'s last speaker in the Envisioning Real Ecotopias spring lecture series will be Dr. J.T. Roane from Rutgers Univeristy. Dr. Roane will present his work on Black ecologies in the Tidewater Region.

All W&M faculty and students are welcome to attend. 

Dr. Roane, author of Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU 2023), is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Geography and Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. 

Sponsored by: The Environment & Sustainability Program (ENSP)

Contact

Haisu Huang, hhuang12@wm.edu