Autumn 2006 Workshops

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Cosponsored with the Workshop on the Global Environment

Thursday, October 12: “Linkages Between Environmental Protection and Human Rights,” Dinah Shelton, Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

[CANCELLED] Wednesday, November 1: “Written in the Birch Bark: The Naturalizing Discourse of Simon Pokagon and the Indian Progressives,” Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago

Thursday, November 9: “The Dangerous Allure of Big Dams: an Historical Perspective on Dam-Building in India,” Kathleen Morrison, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago; Director, Center for International Studies

Thursday, November 16:"Nature, Natives and Networks: Institutionalizing Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Transnational Politics," Sonja Pieck, Lecturer and Research Associate, Environmental Studies Program

Thursday, November 30: “Conservation Concessions, National Parks, Biospheres, and Other Problematic Concepts: Territorial Rights in the Context of Worldwide Environmental Conservation Efforts,” Alaka Wali, Curator and Director, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC), Field Museum; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Chicago

The joint Human Rights and Global Environment Workshops will take place at 4:30 in Pick 105. For copies of the papers, contact Lisa Simeone (lsimeone@uchicago.edu) or Madeleine McLeester (maddie@uchicago.edu), or call the Human Rights Program at 834-0957. Persons with a disability or who feel they may need assistance should also contact 834-0957.