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If you missed Peter Gleick's talk, "Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?", you can view the video here.
Check out Vanderbilt Year of Sustainability, 2011-2012, a web documentary created by Film and American Studies students, Lindsey Coven and Katie Ullman.
Sustainability Events, 2/12 - 2/19
2012 Cumberland Project Proposals Due
Wednesday, February 15
Faculty who would like to
develop a new course module or a new course that engages issues of
sustainability and environmental awareness are encouraged to apply. No
prior experience with environmental issues in the classroom or in
research is necessary. Send a short, one-paragraph description of how
you plan to change an existing course or develop a new one that will
incorporate environmental and/or sustainability issues in Word format to
Joe Bandy, Assistant Director for The Center for Teaching, joe.bandy@vanderbilt.edu.
Next Week
Creative Writing Spring Literary Symposium: "Sustainability and Creative Writing"
Thursday, February 23, 7:00 p.m.
Buttrick Hall 101
A joint reading by:
Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Rope and editor of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity and the Natural World.
John Lane,
Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies and Director
of the Glendale Shoals Environmental Studies Center, Wofford College.
Free and Open to the Public. Contact Margaret Quigley for more information.
Robert Penn Warren Center Symposium: Representation and Social Change Symposium
February 23 and 24, 2012
Black Cultural Center Auditorium
The symposium serves as the culminating project of the Fellows'
year-long seminar and will include the following sustainability-related
sessions:
- Thursday, February 23, 6:30 p.m.: Screening of Trouble the Water documentary and discussion with Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
- Friday, February 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.: J. Robert Cox, Climate Change, Media Convergence, and Public Uncertainty
Visit the Robert Penn Warren Center
website for details and the full schedule. Co-sponsors of the
symposium: The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the
Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center
Joel B. Eisen: “The Future of Energy Law: Residential Renewable Energy: By Whom?"
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt University Law School
This talk and panel is a part of The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference.
- Presentation: Joel B. Eisen, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
- Commentors: Regan Farr, Vice President and COO, Silicon Ranch
Corporation; Matthew Kisber, President and CEO, Silicon Ranch
Corporation; Jim Purcell, Energy Services Manager, Nashville Electric
Service; and Stephen Smith, Executive Director, Southern Alliance for
Clean Energy
Free and open to the public.
Visit http://law.vanderbilt.edu/events/ for more information.
Vanderbilt Law Review Symposium: “Supply and Demand: Barriers to a New Energy Future"
Friday, February 24, 2012, 8:00am – 4:00pm
Vanderbilt University Law School
Panelists include: Noah Sachs, Professor of Law, University of Richmond
School of Law; Katrina Fischer Kuh, Professor of Law, Hofstra
University Law School;
Dan Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, University of California-Berkeley
School of Law; Jim Rossi, Harry M. Walborsky Professor & Associate
Dean for Research,
Florida State University College of Law; Michael Vandenbergh, Professor
of Law, Vanderbilt Law School; Dan Tarlock, Distinguished Professor of
Law & Director of the Program in Environmental and Energy Law,
Chicago-Kent College of Law; Alexandra Klass,
Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University
of Minnesota Law School; Uma Outka, Professor of Law, University of
Kansas School of Law; and Sarah Bronin, Professor of Law, University of
Connecticut School of Law
Co-Sponsored by the Climate Change Research Network and the Environmental Law Program. For full agenda, visit: http://www.vanderbiltlawreview.org/symposium/.
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