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

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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

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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.