CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will host a five-day conference on climate change, March 21 through 25, on campus. Events in the conference, titled "climate: CHANGE - Acting Together on Sustainability, Climate Change and Environmental Justice," are open to the public, free of charge.

Notable presenters on environmental issues will include Bill McKibben, Foster Brown, Jerry Jenkins and Michelle Roberts.

A festival of films on social and environmental issues will be presented, along with an art installation of recycled materials and a poster competition for local middle and high school students on climate-change issues, sponsored by the St. Lawrence County Environmental Management Council.

Presentations, each including an opportunity for audience questions, will be as follows:

• Monday, March 21, 7:30 p.m, Peterson-Kermani Performance Hall, "The Politics of Climate Change: Innovative Legal Justice Advocacy," by Roberts, campaign and policy coordinator for Advocates for Environmental Human Rights in Washington, DC.

• Tuesday, March 22, 7:30 p.m., Peterson-Kermani, "What is the world doing about climate change?," by Brown, environmental geochemist and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Institute in Massachusetts. Brown is the son of the late Foster S. Brown, president of St. Lawrence from 1963 through 1969.

• Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m., Eben Holden Center, "Climate Change in the Adirondacks," by Jenkins, founder and director of the White Creek Field School and an expert in botanical survey and forest ecology.

• Thursday, March 24, 7:30 p.m., Eben Holden, "Global and Local: Updates from the Climate Fight," by McKibben, author, activist, environmentalist and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.

Sarah Johnson Redlich, a 1982 SLU graduate and a university trustee, is an executive producer of the films in the festival, all of which have themes of environmental and social justice. Their schedule:

• Monday, March 21, 9:30 p.m., Peterson-Kermani, Secrets of the Tribe

• Tuesday, March 22, 9:30 p.m., Peterson-Kermani, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

• Wednesday, March 23, 9 p.m., Hepburn Hall Auditorium, Room 219, Miss Representation

• Friday, March 25, 1:30 to 7:30 p.m., Peterson-Kermani, Secrets of the Tribe, Living in Emergency, Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence and The Last Mountain

Further details about these events, as well as others that are part of the conference, may be found on SLU’s Green Pages web site.