BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12700-982b028165bf635a0b79e3c9bf6d3b3b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260707T153929Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T130000 SUMMARY:“Remembering Rachel Carson: From Queer Icon to Intersectional Environmen talism” DESCRIPTION:\nPamela VanHaitsma\n\nAssociate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences\; Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\n\nWhile Ra chel Carson’s public contributions to the mainstream environmentalist mo vement are widely recognized\, few people realize how these contribution s were enabled by her intimate\, same-sex relationship with Dorothy Free man. In the last few years\, however\, some writers and even organizatio ns have started to celebrate Carson as a “queer icon” of environmentalis m. My talk embraces this moment of remembering Carson’s queerness but ca lls for deeper consideration of its intersections with questions of gend er\, disability\, race\, and nation. How\, I ask\, can a queer public me mory of Rachel Carson be fashioned to serve what activist and eco-commun icator Leah Thomas theorizes as intersectional environmentalism?\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/remembering-rachel-carson- from-queer-icon-to-intersectional-environmentalism/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Pamela VanHaits ma
Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

While Rachel Carson’s public contri butions to the mainstream environmentalist movement are widely recognize d, few people realize how these contributions were enabled by her intima te, same-sex relationship with Dorothy Freeman. In the last few years, h owever, some writers and even organizations have started to celebrate Ca rson as a “queer icon” of environmentalism. My talk embraces this moment of remembering Carson’s queerness but calls for deeper consideration of its intersections with questions of gender, disability, race, and natio n. How, I ask, can a queer public memory of Rachel Carson be fashioned t o serve what activist and eco-communicator Leah Thomas theorizes as inte rsectional environmentalism?

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/remembering -rachel-carson-from-queer-icon-to-intersectional-environmentalism/ URL:https://hi.psu.edu/initiatives-and-programs/resident-lecture-series/ LOCATION:124 Sparks Building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR