Regenerative Economies | BMI Summer Institute on Environmental Justice
Black Midwest Initiative Facilitator Talk Series
July 25, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities
Address
1007 W. Harrison Street, Suite 153, Chicago, IL 60607
Calendar
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10:00am | Presentation: “No Cold Storage: Idlewild’s Cooperative Economy” | lydia marie hicks, Black Eden Arts Alliance
lydia marie hicks is a feral artist raised by farmers and craftspeople whose practice interweaves storytelling, deep ecology, and process-based adaptive reuse. A product of the Great Migration and the Midwest, hicks seeks to forge connections across identity, origin, and probability patterns, often drawing on their background in zoology they blend social histories and natural histories to generate grandiose metaphors for reconnection or transmutation. Holding an MFA in Film/Video from CalArts and a BS in Zoology (+business, communications, francophone studies, and scuba diving) from Cal Poly Humboldt, hicks’s work spans film, installation, and site-responsive community projects.
11:15am | Presentation: “Lessons for Environmental Justice Advocates in Challenging Times” | David N. Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara
David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on social change movements, environmental justice, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social inequality. His books include: What is Critical Environmental Justice?; Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement; The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden; Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice; The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy; and Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago.
Date posted
Jun 10, 2025
Date updated
Jun 10, 2025