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”