Mobilizing for a Just Transition - Global Conf. on Sustainability in Higher Ed: Keynote by Ibram X. Kendi

Middlebury is a Host Institution for the virtual three-day conference offered by AASHE (Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Ed), October 20-22.

How to Be an Antiracist

In this keynote address, Ibram X. Kendi will give a new frame for understanding racism and provide guidance on how to be an antiracist.

Ibram X. Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Professor Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is also the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Professor Kendi is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and The Black Campus Movement, which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, a young adult remix of Stamped from the Beginning, co-authored with Jason Reynolds. He most recently authored the #1 Indie bestseller, Antiracist Baby, available as a board book and picture book for caretakers and little ones.

FREE REGISTRATION is available for Midd students/faculty/staff and includes access to all sessions and events during and for 30 days after the conference. REGISTER NOW at go/AASHE2020 

Humanity faces a series of intensifying and interrelated social and ecological crises. Solving these crises requires a holistic transformation: a shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy. With the theme of “Mobilizing for a Just Transition,” this AASHE conference will focus on centering justice within this transformation and ensuring that it leaves no one behind. We seek to encourage higher education leaders to reflect and act on the Just Transition Principles articulated by the Climate Justice Alliance and to spotlight inspirational examples of institutions championing this work. 

Many sessions and keynotes will be offered, both live and on demand. Check out the schedules:
Live Schedule, https://www.aashe.org/conference/program/live-schedule/
On-demand Schedule, https://www.aashe.org/conference/program/on-demand-schedule/

Some Keynote Events (full listing at https://www.aashe.org/conference/):