Fracking Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Environmental Crisis
Steingraber speaking on environmental health
Monday, April 29, 2013 · 4 - 5 PM
On Campus
The Fracking of Rachel Carson
Silent Spring in an Age of Environmental Crisis
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Gender + Women's Studies Sixth Annual Korenman Lecture
Humanities Forum
Social Sciences Forum
A cancer survivor, Dr. Sandra Steingraber has written extensively on the intersection of the environment and public health. She will discuss what we have learned, and failed to learn, in the 50 years since Rachel Carson’s publication of Silent Spring, and will examine the threat to public health that fracking poses.
Sandra Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. Originally published in 1997, it was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries and won praise from international media including The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Lancet, and The London Times.
Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women Studies with support from the Department of American Studies, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Geography and Environmental Systems, Office of the Provost, Social Sciences Forum, and Women in Science and Engineering
Silent Spring in an Age of Environmental Crisis
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Gender + Women's Studies Sixth Annual Korenman Lecture
Humanities Forum
Social Sciences Forum
A cancer survivor, Dr. Sandra Steingraber has written extensively on the intersection of the environment and public health. She will discuss what we have learned, and failed to learn, in the 50 years since Rachel Carson’s publication of Silent Spring, and will examine the threat to public health that fracking poses.
Sandra Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. Originally published in 1997, it was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries and won praise from international media including The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Lancet, and The London Times.
Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women Studies with support from the Department of American Studies, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Geography and Environmental Systems, Office of the Provost, Social Sciences Forum, and Women in Science and Engineering
Biologist, ecologist, environmental health, feminist author, activist & scholar, Sandra Steingraber, will be giving a talk is entitled "*The Fracking of Rachel Carson: Silent Spring in an age of Environmental Crisis"
She is hailed as the successor of Rachel Carson, the groundbreaking environmentalist and author of *Silent Spring*, which celebrates a 50th anniversary this year.
Dr. Steingraber is the author of several memoirs of environmental activism, including Living Downstream, Having Faith and Raising Elijah.
The 6th annual Korenman lecture will take place on the UMBC campus (1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250) in the *Albin O. Kuhn Library on the 7th floor.
Parking is available in two visitor lots on campus. If you would like additional information about the lecture, please contact Elle Trusz in the Gender and Women's Studies office at 410.455.2001 or via email at elle@umbc.edu. For more information about Dr. Sandra Steingraber, please visit her website http://steingraber.com/.
She is hailed as the successor of Rachel Carson, the groundbreaking environmentalist and author of *Silent Spring*, which celebrates a 50th anniversary this year.
Dr. Steingraber is the author of several memoirs of environmental activism, including Living Downstream, Having Faith and Raising Elijah.
The 6th annual Korenman lecture will take place on the UMBC campus (1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250) in the *Albin O. Kuhn Library on the 7th floor.
Parking is available in two visitor lots on campus. If you would like additional information about the lecture, please contact Elle Trusz in the Gender and Women's Studies office at 410.455.2001 or via email at elle@umbc.edu. For more information about Dr. Sandra Steingraber, please visit her website http://steingraber.com/.