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Revision as of 22:27, 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
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