October Pub Talk

Science Pub: “Perspectives on Community Minded Scholarship”
October 17th, 2023 | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Sip your favorite brew, while you learn a thing or two! Science Pub is an opportunity to enjoy learning about interesting topics in an informal atmosphere. Just bring your curiosity and a thirst to learn!

There are 2 ways to be at this event:

  1. In Person – Paradise Creek Brewery will be seating indoors at 100% capacity and the pub talk will be broadcast/projected on a the large projection screen in the pub/restaurant area.
  2. On Zoom – Register for the Zoom Talk HERE. Place a food/drink order for pick up at Paradise Creek Brewery’s Downtown Restaurant – 245 SE Paradise St, Pullman. Local delivery is also available. Tip: Place your order early so it’s ready by Pub talk time.

See the Facebook event here

This month’s speakers:

Join Kristina Borrman and Joseph Hulbert on Oct 17th for their pub talk, “Perspectives on Community Minded Scholarship”.

Kristina Borrman’s talk, “Naming, Blaming, and Claiming: The Columbus Monument and the Struggle for Diversity Rights in Syracuse, New York”, describes how the Columbus Monument offers an excellent case-study for better understanding the ways that monuments pave dispute-processing paths.

Joe Hulbert will talk about engaging communities in environmental research to help address urban inequities. In this presentation you will learn how WSU is exploring approaches to engaging communities in research about tree health and urban heat islands in the Northwest.

Dr. Kristina Borrman is the Assistant Professor of Social Justice in the Built Environment at the School of Design and Construction. Broadly speaking, Borrman’s scholarship focuses on the relationship between the built environment and the instantiation of social identity in the modern world. By approaching twentieth-century world history within the context of architecture, she examines everyday life—the ethics of ordinary choices—to reveal ways in which race, class, and space are mutually constitutive.

Dr. Joey Hulbert is a postdoc in the Department of Plant Pathology based at the WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center. He leads the Ravenholt Urban Forest Health Lab (https://treehealth.wsu.edu/) and engages communities through the Forest Health Watch (https://foresthealth.org) program. Dr. Hulbert aspires to push the boundaries of community engagement in environmental sciences in Washington by leveraging his training in forest pathology and experiences leading community science projects.