Join the Environmental Cooperative for an exciting presentation by Vassar Science, Technology, and Society professor Daniel Schniedewind. Professor Schniedewind will speak about his research on biological invasion in the Hudson Valley, reframing the so-called invasive species issue through postcolonial and anti-racist lenses that take our region’s complex history into account. This event is co-sponsored by the Vassar Biology Department and the Bio Majors Committee.

Please register for this event. Parking is available free-of-charge and refreshments will be served.

“Biological invasion is a major, multidimensional challenge in the Hudson Valley,” says Professor Schniedewind. “It is also a phenomenon with deep historical roots in the region, bound up with racial slavery and its aftermath, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and the establishment of a colonial society. This talk asks what it could mean to approach biological invasion as an environmental justice issue whose ramifications were never only ecological. How might Indigenous-led responses to biological invasion from near and far shape how the invasive-species challenge is conceptualized and addressed?”