The annual Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs at SUNY Geneseo will feature Manuela L. Picq, a professor of international relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, who will speak on the topic of âWater Defenders: why indigenous peoples, especially women, at the frontlines of climate solutions.
The April 14 lecture will be hosted online via Zoom at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Register for the lecture online here.
In addition to her professor role at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Picq is the Loewenstein Fellow in the Departments of Sexuality, Womenâs and Gender Studies and Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She has held research positions at Freie Universität Berlin (2015), the Institute for Advanced Study (2013), and the Woodrow Wilson Center (2005).