2022 E&T BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA Friday, August 5th, 12:30pm Los Angeles, CA In attendance: Kelsey Ryan-Simkins; Angus Nurse; Nels Paulson “Before we can talk about sociology, power, inequality, we must acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional and unceded territory of the peoples in your respective places.  We acknowledge that academic institutions (indeed the nation-state itself) was founded upon and continues to enact exclusions and erasures of Indigenous peoples. This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle ongoing legacies of settler colonialism, and to recognize the hundreds of Indigenous Nations who continue to resist, live, and uphold their sacred relations across their lands." * Report highlighting this year: > 2021 Annual Meeting: Virtual > Membership: 2016- 115; 2017- 111; 2018- 102; 2019- 111; 2020- 89 > Our division put out two (fall; summer) newsletters- Emily Burke- THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE IN THIS CAPACITY!! > Incoming Chair Position: Congrats to Dr. Lauren Eastwood! > ACTION ITEM: Social Media Manager- tabled until next year. Instead we discussed adding a mid-year brown bag virtual presentation, as people are interested and available, on a given topic- can call out in the newsletter and email in the fall to solicit potential topics and presentations > ACTION ITEM: 2023 Division Sponsored Project- hopefully we can submit a new version of Kelsey Ryan-Simkins’s successful Urban Agriculture and Activism proposal (Kelsey will take the lead on this proposal again); Chair of chairs meeting this one was called out as an outstanding example of sponsored project but we were unable to do it when we went virtual with COVID-19 > Will be putting on a 2023 Workshop on helping junior BIPOC and LGBTQ+ scholars and graduate students integrate with E&T more while giving training on career advancement- Angus Nurse, Clare Cannon, and Nels Paulson all volunteered to help lead this and Kelsey will ask Marisol about her interest in volunteering to lead this workshop as well. > Student paper award: winner Rebecca Ewert (University of Chicago); thanks to Erin Robinson, Victor Perez, and Nahide Konak [PN1]for serving on the award review committee. * ACTION ITEM: solicit volunteers to serve on awards committee for next year. Nels and Angus to potentially review student papers- but open to others * Please help to promote the award to grad students > Edited Reader of E&T SSSP Scholarship: Angus Nurse and Laura McKinney working on this through Lexington- Courtney Morales is the new acquisitions editor who reviewed their proposal and is keen on it; they will follow-up and hopefully move forward on this book in 2023! > Interested in Fall Newsletter special essays- Angus Nurse will write something about the panel of Environmental Racism for fall; Kelsey Ryan-Simkins will write something for spring (something around positionality in community-based research) > Remaining Announcements/Comments/Questions? * 2023 Meetings: > August 18-20, 2023, Philadephia, PA > Sessions due in early September to SSSP office (titles, co-sponsors, and organizers) * Ideas for sessions? * Up to 11 total: 3 division sessions, 7 co-sponsored sessions, 1 virtual * At least 1 virtual, 1 conference theme, 1 Critical Dialogue * Author meet critic sessions count as a division session * Theme: Same Problem Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems Session ideas Environmental Litigation in the Age of the Conservative Courts (Angus) Environmental Activism (ASK) Gender and the Environment (Kelsey) Climate Change: Now what do we do? (Nels) Technology and Crime: Different than Panopticon? (Nels) Race and Environmental Problems (Angus) Cleaning up Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Crisis of Capitalism (Author Meet Critics- Nels organize and Angus is the author) * BUDGET: Budget Request and Justification* Environment & Technology, 2023 Budget Items Requested Amount 1. Stipend to Division Newsletter Editor $350 2. Award for Student Paper Winner $100 3. Reception at Annual Meeting $150 Total $600 Justification: 1. Newsletter stipend: We request funds to award $350 to a graduate student who is our newsletter editor and has worked very hard to revamp our newsletter. 2. Graduate student paper competition: We request funds to award a $100 honorarium to our student paper winner. 3. Reception: We would like to contribute $150 toward the co-sponsored reception. *NOTE: Budgets may need to change given SSSP loss in funds from COVID [PN1]Can you please add the names here for winner and reviewers?