Spring 2011 Schedule

The Workshop on the Global Environment
Presents our 2011 Spring Quarter Series:

Politics and Policy of Water

All meetings will take place on select Wednesdays, at 4:30 in Pick 105 unless otherwise indicated. Please check this page for forthcoming updates to the Spring schedule.


April 20th ***In Haskell 315***
(In conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop)
Professor Kathleen Morrison
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“Was There a Colonial Ecological Watershed in India? Environmental History, Imagination, and Change”


May 4th
Marcos Mendoza
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“Conservation Policing: Park Rangers, Resource Management, and Enactments of the State.”


May 18th
Fatma Kalpakli
Post Doctoral Scholar, Comparative Human Development
University of Chicago
“Each and All Concept in Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests”


***Friday***, May 20th
Nancy Martin
Masters Candidate in Public Policy
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
“Iron Supplementation and Fortification Options to Reduce Anemia and Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in the Developing World”
***12:00 to 1:30 p.m., Pick 105***
Co-sponsor: Environment, Agriculture, and Food Group


May 25th
Margaret Schneemann
Resource Economist,
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, University of Illinois
“Water Planning & Economics: Implementing Water2050”


June 8th
Alex Blanchette
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“The Political Ecology of the Herd": Biosecurity and the Factory Farm”

Winter 2011 Schedule

The Workshop on the Global Environment

Presents our 2010 Fall Quarter Series:

Movements, Policy, Nature

All meetings will take place on select Wednesdays, at 4:30 in Pick 105 unless otherwise indicated.

January 26th
Maura Capps, PhD Student
Department of History, University of Chicago
"Flowers of the Nation: Federation Nature and the Australian Imaginary, 1880-1920."

February 9th
Meleiza Figueroa, Graduate Student
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
"The Pervasive Politics of Invisible Trees: A Social History of the Castor Bean in Bahia, Brazil."

February 16th, Franke Institute
Panel Discussion with Mari Gallagher and Pam Martin
***more info to follow***

February 23rd
Filipe Calvão, PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
“TBD” (Angolan diamond mining)

March 2nd
Nusrat Chowdhury
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Mines, Signs, and the Meanings of Politics in Phulbari, Bangladesh"

The Workshop sessions are free and open to the public. If there are any questions about attendance, please contact Brian Wilson (bcwilson@uchicago.edu).
People with a disability who may require assistance should also contact bcwilson@uchicago.edu.

Fall 2010 Schedule

The Workshop on the Global Environment
Presents our 2010 Fall Quarter Series: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Health and the Body

All meetings will take place on select Wednesdays, at 4:30 in Pick 105 unless otherwise indicated.

**Schedule updated November 11th please see below for changes**

October 6th
John Schneider, MD, MPH
Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Medicine
University of Chicago
“Cell phone social network structure of Indian men who have sex with men”

October 20th
Brett Bennett
PhD Candidate, Department of History
University of Texas
" ‘Sisters of the South’: Australian-South African botanic exchange and the rise comparative climatic forestry in South Africa 1881-1994"

For a copy of this paper click here.

October 27th
Francesca McInerney
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University
“Lessons from global warming in the geologic past: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”

For a copy of this paper click here.

(This paper is currently under review and may not be distributed or reproduced without the express consent of the author.)

November 10th
L. Sullivan
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“'The Indian Does Not Produce': Ethanol Production and Land Conflict on the Brazilian 'Frontier.’”

For a copy of this paper click here.

Lecture Series with David Bunn
Visiting Professor, Department of English University of Johannesburg, South Africa

November 11th (THURSDAY 4:30pm, Classics 110)
"An Informal Rule: English Landscape Legacies in South Africa's Kruger National Park"
Reception to follow

November 12th (FRIDAY, 1:00pm, Rosenwald 405)
"Unnatural States: New Interdisciplinary Histories of African Game Reserves"

**Co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center and the African Studies workshop**

November 24th
Megan Edwards
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology University of Chicago
“Savoring New Worlds: Early Modern Colonial Foodways as Encounters with ‘Othered’ Environments”
**Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop**

December 1st
Madeleine McLeester
PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“The Archaeology of an Industrialized Environment: Tackling the Environmental Archaeology of the Hidden, Obscured, and Erased Past of the Calumet Region”
**Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop**

The Workshop sessions are free and open to the public. If there are any questions about attendance, please contact Brian Wilson (bcwilson@uchicago.edu).
People with a disability who may require assistance should also contact bcwilson@uchicago.edu.

Spring Schedule

The Workshop on the Global Environment
Presents our Spring Quarter Series: Culture and Nature
All meetings will take place on select Wednesdays, at 4:30 in Pick 105.

April 7
Julia Thomas
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame
The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History:
The Case of the Korean DMZ

For a copy of this paper, Click Here

April 21 PLEASE NOTE: Rescheduled for May 26th
Jessica Robinson
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Turtles All the Way Down:
Ecological Crises and the Search for Bermudian “Roots”

May 5 PLEASE NOTE: Canceled--Rescheduled for Fall Quarter
Francesca McInerney
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University
Title: TBA

May 12
Christina Campisi
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethnic Identity in the
Pascua Lama Mining Conflict in Chile

For a copy of this paper, Click Here

May 19
Royal Ghazal
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
A Political Ecology of Oasis Settlement:
Observations from Bronze Age Oman

May 26
Jessica Robinson
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Turtles All the Way Down:
Children's Books as a Window into Identity in Bermuda

June 2
Huafei Qiu
Professor and Deputy Dean, School of Political Science and International Relations
Tongji University, Shanghai
Sino-U.S. Cooperation on Non-traditional Security Issues: Climate Change and Environmental Protection

The Workshop sessions are free and open to the public. If there are any questions about attendance, please contact Brian Wilson (bcwilson@uchicago.edu).
People with a disability who may require assistance should also contact bcwilson@uchicago.edu.