CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic

Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic

The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State will be running a “conference-style” podcast to feature intellectual, activist, artistic, or community work happening around the contemporary crisis of race, the environment, and the pandemic. We are looking for speakers to have a recorded conversation about the work they are doing to document, alleviate, or understand these crises. Speakers would be volunteering to record a 15-minute long conversation about their work. The deadline for submissions is October 15th. Please see the flyer for more information.

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