ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES EVENTS SPRING 2008

 

Evening Colloquia

 

Tuesday, February 19

7:00 pm in Olin 1

Joel Tickner '89, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of MA Lowell

Rethinking the Way We Address Complex Risks to Human Health and Ecosystems

 

Tuesday, February 26

7:00 pm in Olin 1

Peter McKinley '87, Director of Forestland Conservation, Forest Society of Maine

 

Conserving Warblers and Willet

 

Tuesday, March 11

7:00 pm in Olin 1

IBM Lecture, Co-sponsored by the STS Program

F. Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland, Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate, UC Irvine

 

Our Changing Atmosphere

 

Thursday, March 13

7:00 pm in Diamond 142

Co-Sponsored by the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement

Sally Fairfax, Professor of Forest Policy, University of California, Berkeley

 

Protecting Large Working Landscapes: Models and Cautionary Tales

 

Tuesday, March 18

7:00 pm in Olin 1

Jon Isham, Professor of Economics and ES, Middlebury College

 

Hollis Lecture - Fanning the Flames: Some Next Steps for the World's Climate Movement

 

Tuesday, April 15

7:30 pm in Diamond 142

Grossman Lecture

Tom Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics

 

Emissions Trading: The Evolution of an Economic Idea from Concept to Global Implementation

 

Wednesday, April 16

7:30 pm in Lovejoy 100

Co-sponsored by History Department

James McCann, Professor of History, Boston University

 

Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Maize Cultivation on Malaria Transmission in Ethiopia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunchtime Colloquia

 

Wednesday, March 5

12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana, join us at 11:30 for lunch with Andy.

Andy Smith, State Toxicologist and Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Programs, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention

 

What are the Top Five Public Health Issues for Maine, and How are They Being Addressed?

 

Wednesday, April 2

12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana, join us at 11:30 for lunch with Peter. 

Peter Sly, Mellon Fellow in Environment and Justice

 

Environmental Justice and Indian Water Rights: 100 years of Paper Water

 

Wednesday, April 9

12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana. Join us at 11:30 for lunch with Kabiri.

Ngeta Kabiri, Faculty Fellow in Environmental Studies and Government

 

Conservation Politics in Africa

 

Other Events

 

Tuesday, February 12

7:00 pm in Diamond 122

Sponsored by the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement

 

Know Before You Vote: Philip Nyhus & Gail Carlson on the environment  

 

Wednesday, February 13

12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana, join us at 11:30 for lunch with Claire Thompson, Steve Erario, Rose Becker, Eric Hansen, and Katie Klepinski

 

Mellon Interns Share Their Jan Plan Experiences

 

Friday, February 22

4:00 pm in  Miller 14

STS Seminar

Lenny Reich, Professor of Administrative Science and STS

 

Climbing the Oil Peak: Energy, Power, and the American Way of Life

 

Wednesday, April 23

12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana

 

Green Colby: Celebrate Earth Day with a Open Discussion about Campus Greening

 

Wednesday, April 30

7:30 pm in Diamond 142

Celebration of the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Keynote Address, 

Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum,

 

Looking Backward/Looking Forward: Spaceflight at the Turn of the New Millennium