Seminars Winter 2009 Environmental Studies Seminar Series
Mondays 12:30-1:40 followed by an informal discussion 1:40-2pm.
221 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building.
Snacks and coffee provided at 12:15!
Jan. 12: Renee Kidson
Senior Water Planner, Sydney Water Corporation; Sydney, Australia
Title: Balancing Water Supply & Demand in Australia: Hard Lessons from a Harsh Land
Host: Brent Haddad
Jan. 19: No Seminar – Holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan. 26: Sharon Martinson
Post-doctoral fellow, Loik Lab, Environmental Studies, UCSC
Title: The changing face of climate change: how indirect effects modify vegetation through plant-herbivore interactions and insect outbreak dynamics
Host: Michael Loik
Feb. 2: Michael Dorsey
Asst. Professor, Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College; Resident Scholar, Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC
Title: Financial Haruspicy, Eco-Market Mandarians & Resistance on the Road to Copenhagen & Beyond
Host: Ravi Rajan
Feb. 9: Barry Nickel
Geographic Information Systems Lab Manager, Environmental Studies, UCSC
Title: GIScience at UCSC: Where are we? Where are we going?
Feb. 16: No Seminar – Holiday – Presidents’ Day
Feb. 23: Scott Prudham
Department of Geography, University of Toronto
Title: Pimping climate change: Richard Branson, global warming, and the performance of green capitalism
Host: Sean Gillon
March 2: Bruce Ferguson
Departamento de Agroecología, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
San Crist óbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
Title: Ranching and Restoration in Lowland Chiapas
Host: Karen Holl
March 9: Tom Perrault
Department of Geography, Syracuse University
Title: Nature and nation: Gas development and the spatial logics of ‘resource nationalism’ in Bolivia
Host: Jeff Bury
March 16: Flora Lu
Asst. Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, UCSC
Title: “Ecologically Noble Savages” or Rapacious Rainforest Residents? Indigenous Conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Host: Jeff Bury
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