Program on the Global Environment

Workshop on the Global Environment

The goal of this workshop is to provoke an informed, interdisciplinary dialogue on the various dimensions of how people engage with their environments. The environment — broadly considered as a dynamic product constantly (re)produced through the interaction of people and the material world they both comprise and occupy — is a source of human sustenance as well as an object of politics, social movements, discourses, and cultural representations. Our goal is to explore the relationships between human rights, perceptions of the environment, cultural representations of nature, and the materiality of environmental histories as they are configured in specific social, political, and cultural contexts.

Unless otherwise indicated, all workshops meet Wednesdays at 4:30 PM in Pick 105.

The workshops are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who may need additional assistance to attend this event, please contact Maddie McLeester at maddie@uchicago.edu.

Spring 2008 Workshops

April 2
Rodger Field
US Environmental Protection Agency
"Uranium Mining in the Navajo Nation: Tribal Sovereignty and the Nuclearization of Indian Country"

April 16
Jerome Tharaud
PhD. student in the English Department at the University of Chicago.
"Evangelical Space: Cosmology and the American Landscape, 1820-1920"

April 23
Jeremy Brooks
Graduate student, UC Davis, Ecology
"Sustainable Development in a Small Country: How Modernization can Reinforce Buddhism and Environmental Values in Bhutan"

Friday, May 2, 2:00 pm
Laura Popova
Arizona State University, Lecturer, Honors College

Friday, May 9, 12:00 pm
Robert Repetto
Yale University, Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development
(Professor Repetto also presented the Keynote address for Is Development Sustainable?)

May 21
Cabell King
Univ. of Chicago, graduate student, Divinity School

June 4
Steven Kosiba
Univ. of Chicago, graduate student, Anthropology

Winter 2008 Workshops

January 9
Mikael Wolfe
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Univ. of Chicago
Engineers, Revolution, and Nature in 20th Century Mexico
(rescheduling of last quarter's GE workshop)

January 17
Trevor Goldsmith
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago
"Hyper-public space and the aesthetics of display in post-Francist Barcelona"

January 24
Amita Baviskar
Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Univ.
"The Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience"

February 7
Rocio Magana
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Univ. of Chicago
"Desolation: The spatial entanglement of border enforcement, unauthorized migration, and civilian interventions along the Arizona-Mexico desert region"

February 28
Steven Wilkinson
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Univ. of Chicago
Emily Meierding and Christopher Haid
PhD Candidates, Department of Political Science, Univ. of Chicago
"Environmental Scarcity and Conflict: Is There a Relationship?"

Workshop Archive

New Graduate Teaching Opportunities for 2008-2009

The Program on the Global Environment has a number of opportunities for advanced graduate students specializing in environmental topics, regardless of discipline.