Max Liboiron, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology and environmental sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Liboiron will discuss “Scientific Cultures and Controversies Over ‘Matter Out of Place.’” The founder and director of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), Liboiron’s research focuses on how harmful yet invisible threats such as disasters, toxicants, and marine plastics become visible in science and evident in activism. She will speak in Benes Room B of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware.
Her presentation is part of the 2015-2016 Sagan National Colloquium speaker series, “The Place of Waste: Exploring Asian and Western Perspectives on Waste, Sustainability, and Environment.”