Date: Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Time: 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Clary Theater, Bill Moore Student Success Center
AGSC is excited to announce a conference highlighting Interdisciplinary and Critical Approaches to Sustainability, entitled “Sustainability in a Planet of Diverse Knowledges and Persistent Inequalities”. The morning session will feature panels of faculty from Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, College of Design, Insitute of People and Technology, the College of Engineering, and College of Science, all in dialogue with faculty from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. The afternoon will focus on critical approaches to the concept of sustainability, featuring scholars from across the Institute and two keynote events.
Event Schedule
SUSTAINABILITY IN A PLANET OF DIVERSE KNOWLEDGES AND PERSISTENT INEQUALITIES
08:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks:
John Lyon
Moderator
Professor and Chair,
School of Modern Languages
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Moderator
Associate Professor and Co-Director,
Atlanta Global Studies Center
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABILITY
PANEL 1: Technology, Computing, and Policy
09:00 a.m. PANEL 1
10:00 a.m. Coffee break
Natalie Khazaal
Moderator
Associate Professor,
School of Modern Languages
Michael Best
Panelist
Professor and Executive Director,
Institute for People and Technology
Josiah Hester
Panelist
Associate Professor,
School of Interactive Computing and Computer Science
Richmond Wong
Panelist
Assistant Professor,
School of Literature, Media & Communication
Panel 2：Business, Design, and the Social Sciences
10:15 a.m. PANEL 2
11:15 a.m. Coffee break
Jennifer Chirico
Moderator
Associate Vice President for Sustainability
Ellen Bassett
Panelist
Professor and Dean,
College of Design
Michael Oxman
Panelist
Professor of the Practice and Managing Director,
Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Anjali Thomas
Panelist
Associate Professor,
School of International Affairs
PANEL 3: Science, Engineering, and the Humanities
11:30 a.m. PANEL 3
12:30 p.m. Catered lunch
Britta Kallin
Moderator
Associate Professor of German, Associate Chair,
School of Modern Languages
Valerie Thomas
Panelist
Professor,
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Jennifer Leavey
Panelist
Assistant Dean, College of Sciences;
Principal Academic Professional, School of Biological Sciences
German Vergara
Panelist
Associate Professor,
School of History & Sociology
PANEL 4: Equity, Community, and Environmental Justice
13:30 p.m. PANEL 4
14:45 p.m. Coffee break
Joe Bozeman
Moderator
Assistant Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sabir Khan
Panelist
Associate Professor,
School of Architecture
Jenny Hirsch
Panelist
Senior Director,
Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education
Brigitte Stepanov
Panelist
Assistant Professor,
School of Modern Languages
PANEL 5: Colonial and Decolonial Sustainabilities
15:00 p.m. PANEL 5
16:30 p.m. Coffee break
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Moderator
Associate Professor and Co-Director,
Atlanta Global Studies Center
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Panelist
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Connecticut
BlackHouse Kollective
Possible Futures
KEYNOTE: Indigenous Science: From Local to Global Context
16:45 p.m. KEYNOTE
Jessica Hernandez
Panelist
Indigenous scholar, community advocate,
Author of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science (2022)