Hollow Tree is the debut documentary of New Orleans Center for the Gulf South 2019 Monroe Fellow Kira Akerman. The film follows three young women coming of age into a new climate reality in Southeast Louisiana. NOCGS is proud to host a screening prior to the film's official release. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film's director and three protagonists, Annabelle Pavy, Tanielma DaCosta, Mekenzie Fanguy, moderated by NOCGS Clark Executive Director Rebecca Snedeker. 

National Book Award winner and decorated author Barry Lopez will give a reading of and talk about his work at Tulane on March 2nd, 6:00 PM, Diboll Gallery (Room 300), The Commons. This is the final event of the 2019-2020 Environmental Studies Speaker Series, "American Water and Actual Air."

Over a long and decorated career, Lopez has written with vividness and specificity about the natural world and the people and creatures for whom the landscape is home. Robert McFarlane of the Guardian describes the experience of first reading Lopez's work thus: 

Sarah Broom in conversation with Vann Newkirk

Tuesday, February 4, 6pm; preceded by a reception at 5:30pm

Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Arts Center, room 210

The event is free and open to the public, and no tickets are required, but please arrive early to guarantee seating.

David Berman is a poet and a singer-songwriter.

This event is part of the 2019-2020 Environmental Studies series, "The Lay of the Land."

Rhiana Gunn-Wright is the policy lead for the Green New Deal at New Consensus.

Jennifer Parker is a Staff Editor for the Op-Ed page at the New York Times.

The event is part of the Environmental Studies 2019-2020 speaker series.

Dr. Shelton is a broadly-trained human geographer working at the intersection of digital geographies, critical GIS and urban geography. His research focuses on how urban spaces and social inequalities are represented, reproduced and contested through data. In particular, he is interested in how data can be used to produce alternative understandings of urban socio-spatial inequalities that challenge the stigmatization of certain people and places. 

Film screening and conversation with the filmmaker

Stories from the Apalachicola is the result of an interdisciplinary effort called the Apalachicola River Project.  The project is a collaboration between students in the Digital Media Production, Media and Communication Studies, English, and Environmental Science and Policy departments.  They partnered with Apalachicola Riverkeeper.

Life without Lead examines the social, political and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, Daniel Renfrew situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. He traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science.

Join us for a forum and discussion with the New Orleans Residents of Gordon Plaza, a local community group fighting to get relocated from their current homes on top of the former Agriculture Street city municipal landfill in the Ninth Ward. The Agriculture site was formerly listed on the US EPA national priorities list (NPL) and part of the US EPA Superfund Program.

Greenwashing Culture examines the complicity of culture with our environmental crisis. Through its own carbon footprint, the promotion of image-friendly environmental credentials for celebrities, and the mutually beneficial engagement with big industry polluters, culture both operates as a crucial polluter and enables environmental criminals to propagandize with local, national, and international communities in search of a social license to operate.