MHC: "I've Known Rivers": Slave Resistance and Environmental Consciousness w/Tiya Miles

Date: 

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S-010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center presents:

Tiya Miles
Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan; Author of
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
(2015); Founder of ECO Girls, an environmental and cultural project for girls in urban Southeast Michigan

The Environment Forum will also host a luncheon for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students with Professor Miles on Thursday, May 4, at noon in Barker Center 133. If you can attend the Thursday luncheon, please RSVP by Monday, May 1, to mhchlunch@fas.harvard.edu.

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University).