Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics: Schedule

Green Governance Project: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Luce Project on Green Governance: Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics

Colloquium Schedule for 2006-2007

Colloquium meetings are held on Fridays, 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. in Room 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley. See this calendar also in PDF.

September 15, 2006

Oil and Patriarchy: Michael Ross, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

October 13, 2006

Mapping Indigenous Lands: Issues and Considerations: Mac Chapin, Director of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation

November 3, 2006

Oil Futures: Shell's Trilemma Triangle and the Force of Community: Anna Zalik, Ciriacy Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Studies; Department of Geography, UC Berkeley

December 8, 2006

Business Success, Angola-Style: The Postcolonial State and the Rise and Rise of Sonangol: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of Cambridge

January 26, 2007

Carrying Capacity: The Genesis of a Flawed Concept: Nathan Sayre, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley

February 23, 2007

Co-opting Restoration: Gender, Voluntarism, and Insurgency in Philadelphia - Paper, Figures: Alec Brownlow, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, DePaul U

March 9, 2007

Fat Ontologies? Toward a Political Ecology of Obesity: Julie Guthman, Assistant Professor, Community Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz

April 27 , 2007

The Making of Concessions: Traditional Authorities, Transnational Capital, and Territorialized Identities in Africa: Rebecca Hardin, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

May 4, 2007

Whose Security? Deepening Social Conflict Over 'Customary' Land in the Shadow of Land Tenure Reform in Malawi: Pauline Peters, Core Faculty, Kennedy School of Government; Faculty Fellow, Center for International Development; Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

This colloquium was initiated as part of the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, an interdisciplinary program which also sponsored working groups, conferences, and residential fellowships. Colloquium meetings are entirely devoted to the discussion of papers that are made available in advance of the session. The workshop is funded by the Luce Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation. For more information on current projects, see the Green Governance Project.

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