Lectures, Events, and Seminars

Special Lectures, Presentations, and News

• Environmental Justice in EHE, Baltimore, and Beyond
• Lawrence T. Brown, PhD, author, The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America • January 2021
• Anti-Racism Teach-In: Forging an Anti-Racism Movement at JHSPH – Part 1 (video)
• Brittany Oliver, Baltimore Activist • August 2020
• IDARE Seminar • Owning and Overcoming Racism at JHSPH, 1960-2020 (video)
• Karen Kruse Thomas, JHSPH Historian, and author, Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954 • August 2020

Seminars in Environmental Justice at UC Berkeley

The seminar series is a component of a new class at UC Berkeley called “Riskscapes and Environmental Justice: Implications for Advancing Scientific Methods and Policy-making.” The course examines scientific methods, analytical approaches, and regulatory strategies to advance environmental justice. It examines structural determinants of environmental health disparities and provide frameworks for evaluating the equity implications of environmental policies and programs.

Register for the series at Zoom:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ufu2hrDMrHdwbT8bl93UOFY38PZm2QRQJ

FRIDAYS 10.10AM PST; 1.10 PM EST, BIWEEKLY

News

• Colleges Comb Diversity Programs for Content that Could Trigger Feds (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Executive Order 13950 - Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
• Johns Hopkins to invest $6M in community-based public safety programs
• Johns Hopkins, benefactor of namesake hospital and university, was an enslaver The Washington Post, December 9, 2020

JHU Events

R.A.C.E. Matter Series
Session 1: Racial Inequity, Voter Oppression & Democracy
October 6, 2020

“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.” ~James Baldwin