Winter Schedule: Workshop on the Global Environment

The Workshop on the Global Environment
Presents Our Winter Quarter Series:
Science and Nature
All meetings will take place on select Wednesdays, at 4:30 in Pick 105, unless otherwise noted.

February 17
Greg Gabrellas
Graduate student, MAPSS
University of Chicago
“The Culture of Crisis: Energy Politics, Environmental Consciousness,
and Late Capitalism”
Discussant: Averill Leslie
Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology

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February 24
Geoff Morris
Postdoctural Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
"Biodiversity and ecosystem services"

For background on this week's talk, please read: Carbon-Negative Biofuels

March 3
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History,
South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Discussant: David Archer
Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
"Between Globalization and Global Warming: The Long and the Short of Human History."
In Classics 110

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March 10
Raphael Larrère
Former Director of Research,
National Institute of Agronomic Studies (Paris, France)
“Is there a good biodiversity and a bad biodiversity?
Why should we struggle against invasive species?”*
Co-sponsored by France Chicago Center
In Classics 110
*This paper will be presented in French. An English version of the paper is available here, and a translator will be made available for the Q&A.