Discarded: Unmasking & Understanding the Waste Stream
2021 Lear-Conant Symposium
March 6, 2021

9:00 - 9:20 A.M.
WELCOME & REMEMBRANCES
Honoring Elizabeth Babbott (“Babs”) Conant ‘51 & Helen Fricke Mathieson ‘52
Derek Turner, Karla Heurich Harrison ‘28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center
With President Katherine Bergeron

9:20 – 10:20 A.M.
The Collective Unseen & the Potential of Visibility
Linda Lear Environmental Lecture
Robin Nagle, NYU School for Liberal Studies, and New York City Department of Sanitation
Introduction by Morgan Maccione, GNCE scholar Class of ‘21

10:20 – 10:30 A.M.
BREAK 

10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
Waste, Reuse, and Industrial Symbiosis: Closing Material Loops
Jean Thomas Lambert Environmental Lecture
Marian Chertow, Yale School of the Environment, and Yale School of Management
Introduction by Caty Fortin, GNCE scholar Class of ‘21

11:30 – 12:30 P.M.
Waste Dreams: Building Creative Engagement at the Dump
Linda Lear Environmental Lecture
Billy Dufala, Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR)
Introduction by Milo Becker, GNCE Scholar Class of '22 

12:30 – 1:20 P.M
LUNCH 

1:20 - 2:15 P.M.
On-Site Interactive with the Purged Possessions Project @Conn
Billy Dufala, Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR)
Anthony Graesch, GNCE Senior Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology

2:15 - 2:30 P.M.
BREAK 

2:30 - 3:30 P.M.
Waste Colonialism
Beaver Brook Lecture
Max Liboiron, Memorial University, Canada, and the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
Introduction by Tess Beardell, GNCE Scholar Class of '21

3:30 - 4:30 P.M.
The Fungibility of Carbon Waste: Plastics, Organics & Thermal/Biological Treatments
Jean thomas Lambert Environmental Lecture
Samantha MacBride, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and Baruch College
Introduction by Ella Rumpf, GNCE Scholar, Class of '21

4:30 - 4:45 P.M.
BREAK 

4:45 - 5:45 P.M.
CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION WITH Q & A
Moderated by Anthony Graesch, GNCE Senior Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology