Sustainability Events, 2/06 - 2/12
Peter Gleick: "Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?"
Thursday, February 9, 2012 , 4:10 PM
Black Cultural Center Auditorium
Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific
Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in
Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical
connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of
climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization,
and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick is an
internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow
in October 2003 for his work. He serves on the boards of numerous
journals and organizations, and is the author of many scientific papers
and seven books, including the biennial water report, The World's Water, and the new Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water.
Cosponsors: Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment, the
Climate Change Research Network, and the Department of Earth &
Environmental Sciences
Cumberland Project Working Group
Friday, February 10, 3:00 PM
Buttrick 123
Join the Cumberland Project Working Group this Friday from 3-4pm in
Buttrick 123. We will be hearing from Lori Troxel, Chalene Helmuth and
Leslie Kirby about 3 very interesting courses related to sustainability,
ones about which there will be much to discuss. For more information,
contact Joe Bandy, joe.bandy@vanderbilt.edu.
Black Migration Symposium
February 10, Vanderbilt University’s Black Cultural Center Auditorium
February 11, Fisk University’s Jubilee Hall
Black Migration Symposium seeks to examine from interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary perspectives a range of issues pertaining to the
challenges, possibilities, and tensions that have emerged from the
migration and settlement of Black/black people—self-identified and
identified as such—in varying sites and contexts in Africa and the
African diaspora, in particular the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Our aim is not simply to explore Black migration, but also to
interrogate the very questions, concepts, and experiences that have
informed this ever-evolving process relative to the arts (broadly
understood), identity matters, intergroup relations, politics, policies,
and race as well as trends in research and pedagogy.
Admission to the Symposium is FREE and open to the public. For more information and program details, visit our website: http://as.vanderbilt.edu/blackmigration.
Next Week
2012 Cumberland Project Proposals Due
Wednesday, February 15
Vanderbilt's Program in American Studies and the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching are proud to announce a second round of proposals for the Cumberland Project.
Modeled on Emory University’s Piedmont Project and Northern Arizona
University’s Ponderosa Project, the Cumberland Project is a two-day
workshop on May 7th and 8th, 2012 in which Vanderbilt faculty engage in
discussions and course designing workshops with Vanderbilt leaders in
sustainability education. The workshop joins intellectual stimulation
with an opportunity to meet with faculty from around the university and
to learn about an array of sustainability resources available on our
campus and within our community.
Participants will receive $500 in research funds for their participation in the two-day workshop.
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.
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2/9 4:10 p.m.
Peter Gleick, Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
2/10 3:00 p.m.
Cumberland Project Working Group
2/15
Proposals for the Cumberland Project Due
2/23 All Day
Spring Literary Symposium: Sustainability and Creative Writing
2/24
Symposium: "Barriers to Renewable Energy"
3/1 4:10 p.m.
Elinor Ostrom, Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons
3/20 4:10 p.m.
David Bollier, The Commons as a Counterpoint to the Market/State Duopoly
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