Engaging humanities perspectives, environmental studies, & social justice theory, the Just Environments Collaborative Group unites humanities centers across the United States to foreground the intertwined nature of social and environmental justice problems.

We are organizing a number of interdisciplinary events for the 2020-2021 academic year, beginning with a meeting on 9 November 2020 at 8pm to study work by Dr. Alan Liu on Critical Infrastructure Studies: a new field uniting “an international community of scholars from many fields who are exploring how looking at the world through the concept of infrastructure—of things and systems made, built, shaped, crafted, interwoven, old, new, lived, loved, hated, sustained, or resisted—can make a difference.”

The work by Dr. Liu that we will read for that event is entitled “What Infrastructure Assumes” and is linked below. In following, on 12 November 2020 at 4:30pm ET Dr. Alan Liu will give a Zoom lecture entitled “Critical Infrastructure Studies–A Primer;” that CLP event will conclude with Dr. Liu fielding questions from the audience.

Register at the link provided.