The showing of “Cooked” will be at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the Main Campus Student Center Black Box Theater.  Public parking is available (hourly rates apply) in the attached parking deck.  Bring a friend and join us to continue the Sixth Annual ECU Sustainability Film and Discussion Series. See below for virtual attendance opportunity via Webex:

Virtual Screening Link:  https://ecu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?tid=564a077d-c33b-49cb-aa40-ae2f012700ad

Dr. Beth Bee, Director of the new Environmental Studies Multidisciplinary Degree Program, will facilitate a panel discussion following the film and take questions from the audience.   The panel will include Dr. Jarvis Hargrove, Associate Professor of History and Director of African and African American Studies, Dr. Anuradha Mukherji, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning, and Dr. Joseph Reid, Assistant Professor of Accounting.

In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of this tragic heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American.

This film is co-sponsored by the following ECU Academic Departments:  African and African American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Community and Regional Planning.

East Carolina University seeks to comply fully with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Please contact  the Department for Disability Support Services at 252-737-1016 to request ADA accommodations. For more information, please contact Chad Carwein, University Sustainability Manager, at carweinc15@ecu.edu.