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| + | [http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1272 Jim Houston] Author <br/> | ||
| + | [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/protected/houston001.pdf Prologue to ''Continental Drift'']<br />[http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/houston/desktop.html Donner Party book ] | ||
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| + | 10/15 Plenary: Melanie DuPuis & Steve Gliessman | ||
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| + | [http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=5 Melanie DuPuis] is the author of the book ''Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink'' (McHenry GT2920.M55 D86 2002) and numerous scholarly articles on food and food-related topics. She is currently co-editor of an issue of the current special "politics of food" issue of ''Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture '' [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/protected/dupuiss07.pdf Her essay] from that issue. | ||
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| + | [http://www.agroecology.org/steve.html Steve Gliessman] works to improve organic agriculture and Fair Trade. [http://cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=697 City on a Hill article] on his work with coffee. Also [http://books.google.com/books?id=P-AGpY7gvIsC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=stephen+r+gliessman&source=web&ots=kWY6jzgDUY&sig=asxXdfwCWE7Iu0060EVHZ_w4J08 excerpts from his book] | ||
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| + | 10/22: The Power of Images | ||
| + | Dennis High, Curator and Private Art Consultant | ||
| + | [http://www.photography.org Center of Photographic Art] | ||
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| + | 10/29: Public Works and Public Good | ||
| + | [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/lewis_martin.html Martin Lewis], History, Stanford [http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1511944081.01511944084 link to iTunes lecture on geo-politics] | ||
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| + | 11/5: [http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/a/envirorefugees.htm Environmental Refugees]. (See also [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/The_Grapes_of_Wrath ''Grapes of Wrath'' issues].) | ||
| + | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Wright Angus Wright], Author and Social Activist | ||
| + | [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y9MjJPyb6NcC&dq=angus+wright&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=a3tNPwXLta&sig=ke-vLQGCpkiHQCFvf43J0zJ7o_A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPR12,M1 Author of ''Death of Ramon Gonzales''] on pesticide use | ||
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| + | 11/12: [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html?pagewanted=allFrom Counterculture to Cyberculture] | ||
| + | [http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/turner.html Fred Turner], Communications, Stanford | ||
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| + | 11/19: Environmental Activism: A Retrospective | ||
| + | [http://www.petrafoundation.org/fellows/Frank_Bardacke/index.html Frank Bardacke], School Teacher and Human Rights | ||
| + | [http://currents.ucsc.edu/printer_friendly.asp?url=/05-06/08-08/friedland.asp William Friedland, Sociology and Community Studies], | ||
| + | [http://santacruzosa.org/board.html Celia Scott], Environmental Attorney | ||
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'''Schedule of Lectures and Panels'''<br / > | '''Schedule of Lectures and Panels'''<br / > | ||
Revision as of 22:26, 13 September 2010
Fall 2008
10/8:
Jim Houston Author
Prologue to Continental Drift
Donner Party book
10/15 Plenary: Melanie DuPuis & Steve Gliessman
Melanie DuPuis is the author of the book Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink (McHenry GT2920.M55 D86 2002) and numerous scholarly articles on food and food-related topics. She is currently co-editor of an issue of the current special "politics of food" issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture Her essay from that issue.
Steve Gliessman works to improve organic agriculture and Fair Trade. City on a Hill article on his work with coffee. Also excerpts from his book
10/22: The Power of Images Dennis High, Curator and Private Art Consultant Center of Photographic Art
10/29: Public Works and Public Good Martin Lewis, History, Stanford link to iTunes lecture on geo-politics
11/5: Environmental Refugees. (See also Grapes of Wrath issues.) Angus Wright, Author and Social Activist Author of Death of Ramon Gonzales on pesticide use
11/12: Counterculture to Cyberculture Fred Turner, Communications, Stanford
11/19: Environmental Activism: A Retrospective Frank Bardacke, School Teacher and Human Rights William Friedland, Sociology and Community Studies, Celia Scott, Environmental Attorney
Fall 2007
Schedule of Lectures and Panels
(Mondays 7 pm in the Media Theater M110 map)
9/26: Introduction
Ravi Rajan, Provost, College Eight
10/1: The Environment Question
Ravi Rajan
10/8: The Organic Machine
Richard White, Professor of History, Stanford University
10/15: California Environmental Literature
Robin Somers, College Eight, UCSC
Jim Houston, Author and Creative Writing Professor, UCSC intro to novelDonner Party book
10/22: Our Ecological Footprint
Ben Crow, Professor of Sociology, UCSC
Ali Shakouri, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCSC
10/29: Insatiable Appetite
Richard Tucker
11/5: Sustainability
Steve Gliessman, Professor of Environmental Studies, UCSC
Sean Swezey, Professor of Environmental Studies, UCSC
11/19: Environmental Justice
Andy Szasz, Professor of Sociology, UCSC. New book on Inverted Quarantine
Sheila Davis, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
11/26: Interpreting the Past and the Present
Paul Koch, Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC
Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News
12/3: The Way Forward
Ravi Rajan
