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.