Rutgers' Annual Academic Research Symposium – October 15–17, 2020

October 12, 2020

Members of the Rutgers Community:   

I am pleased to invite you to Rutgers' 2020 annual academic research symposium, Hacking the University: Reckoning with Racial Equity, Climate Justice and Global Warming.  The three-day virtual symposium is organized by Jack Tchen, Inaugural Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities and Director of the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University–Newark.       

You are invited to participate in a series of discussion sessions grappling with global warming, including the critical matters of racial equity and climate justice. "Hacks" will include presentations by Wayne Yang on A Third University is Possible, Winona LaDuke on Indigenous New Deal, Rod Ferguson's To Catch a Light-Filled Vision - the Activation of Radical Traditions, and Robert Kopp's Usable Earth System Science and the 21st Century Land-Grant Mission.  Speakers will also include Indigenous, environment justice scholars and community activists; diverse faculty from Rutgers University, as well as from other colleges and universities; and Rutgers—Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor; and Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway.   

This virtual program will take place on Thursday, October 15, 5:00 p.m.—6:15 p.m.; Friday, October 16, 11:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, October 17, 11:00 a.m.—1:30 p.m. 

This program is sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Office of the Chancellor, Rutgers–Newark.    

Please see the attached flyer for details on the program agenda. Visit this link to register:  
https://academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/rutgers-academic-research-symposium

Sincerely,

Prabhas V. Moghe 
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Distinguished Professor