2008 Plenary Schedule
Schedule of Plenary Lectures
9/23: Introduction
Ravi Rajan, Provost, College Eight
9/29: Why Grapes of Wrath Matters Today
Susan Shillinglaw, English, San Jose State
10/6: The Environment and Human Rights
Ravi Rajan
10/13: Environmental Justice: the Case of the Silicon Valley
Sheila Davis, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
10/20: Conservation Science and Planetary Survival
Ingrid Parker, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
Patrick Chuang, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC
10/27: The Politics of Food Patricia Allen, Director Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UCSC
11/3: Global Warming: Up Close and Personal
Susanne Moser, Research Associate, UCSC
11/10: The Future of Water
Brent Haddad, Professor of Environmental Studies, UCSC
11/17: Risk and Disasters
Ravi Rajan
11/24: Engineering for a Greener World
Ken Pedrotti, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCSC
John Vesecky, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCSC
12/1: Concluding Remarks
Ravi Rajan
