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