Welcome Back!
The Spring semester of the
Sustainability Project will be as action packed as the first. Stay tuned
for the Amer 300 Lecture Series, "The Commons: History, Sustainability,
Activism," the continuation of the Green Bag Luncheon Series, Road
Trips, and much, much more.
Next Week
Lewis Hyde: "Defending the Cultural Commons"
January 19, 2012, 4:10 p.m., Johnson Center Auditorium
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist,
translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the
public life of the imagination. A MacArthur Fellow and former director
of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde's most
recent book, Common as Air, is a spirited defense of our
"cultural commons," that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of
art that we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the
present.
Cosponsors: Department of English, The Martha Ingram Rivers Commons, and Department of Philosophy
MLK Weekend of Service
Visit the Office of Active Citizenship and Service website,
for a great list of service opportunities including work with Nashville
Mobile Market, Vandy SPEAR, Vanderbilt Garden Initiative, Vanderbilt
Sierra Club, and Second Harvest Nashville.
Road Trip: Nashville Environmental Justice
Explore key sites in the battle for
environmental justice in Nashville with David Padgett, Associate
Professor of Geography at Tennessee State University; Joe Bandy,
Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching; and local activists.
This trip is part of the American Studies Sustainability Project.
Later this Semester
Lecture Series: "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism"
Lewis Hyde
Defending the Cultural Commons
January 19, 2012, 4:10 p.m., Johnson Center Auditorium
Cosponsors: Department of English, The Martha Ingram Rivers Commons, and Department of Philosophy
Peter Gleick
Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
February 9, 2012, 4:10 p.m.
Cosponsors: Vanderbilt Institute for
Energy and the Environment, the Climate Change Research Network, and
the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Elinor Ostrom
Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons
March 1, 2012, 4:10 p.m.
Cosponsors: Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
David Bollier
The Commons as a Counterpoint to the Market/State Duopoly
March 29, 2012, 4:10 p.m.
Green Bag Luncheon Series
Sustainable Food Choices Offered by VU Dining/Cooking with Herbs
Presenters: Suzanne Herron, VU Dining; Stacey Kendrick, Health Plus
Wednesday, January 25
Green Spring Cleaning
Wednesday, February 29
Sustainable Landscaping and Gardening
Wednesday, March 28
Sustainable Travel
Wednesday, April 18
All Sessions Noon to 1pm, Sarratt 189
Symposium: "Barriers to Renewable Energy"
Friday, February 24, 2012
Organized by the Vanderbilt Law Review and Climate Change Research Network
Creative Writing Spring Literary Symposium: "Sustainability and Creative Writing"
Thursday, February 23 - Friday, February 24, 2012
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
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