The Environment and Development Advanced Research Circle (EDARC)* of the International Institute and Global studies, in collaboration with the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies**, at UW-Madison Announce:

Political Ecologies of Knowledge, Science and Technology Interdisciplinary Workshop
March 6-7, 2006
The Pyle Center – 702 Langdon Street
University of Wisconsin–Madison

DAY 1: Monday March 6, 2006 (8:00AM – 5:30PM)
8:00AM – 9:35AM***
I) INTRO SESSION: Reframing Nature-Society Relations: Networks, Methods, Theory, and Reflectivity
1) Matt Turner: Welcome to workshop and brief discussion of political ecology and critical engagements with environmental scientific practice
2) Sarah Whatmore: Knowledge controversies: Science, democracy and the redistribution of environmental expertise
3) Dianne Rocheleau: Powered webs and rooted networks in complex landscapes
4) Peter Taylor: Political ecological accounts of intersecting processes as a model for addressing the social situatedness of political ecological researchers

9:35AM – 9:50AM Break (with coffee, snacks)

9:50AM – 11:05AM
II. Politics and Hope at the Knowledge Interface: Alterative Framings of Nature and Indigenous/Local (Knowledge) Claims
1) Maria Lepowsky: Sacred space and cultural memory in Southern California
2) Roopali Phadke: Damming the Krishna Valley: Lessons in technological reclamation
3) Joshua Ramisch: Interpreting farmers' soil fertility "experiments": Performances at the development interface

11:05AM – 11:15AM Short Break

11:15AM – 12:50PM
III. Global(ized) Visions and Techniques of Control: Management, Institutions and Governance
III.1. Global-Local Environments, Local-Global Knowledge: The Politics of Scale in Seeing, Managing and Regulating Nature and ‘the Environment’
1) Peter Brosius: Conservation and the metrics of accountability
2) Tim Forsyth: Discursive governance and land-use-cover-change: Moving beyond narrative analysis
3) Nancy Peluso: Emergencies, insurgencies and forests in southeast Asia
4) Tori Jennings: Headlines and heresies: Why we debate climate change

12:50PM – 2:00PM Lunch (on own)

2:00PM – 3:35PM
III .2. Global Governance and Environmentality: Policy, Institutions, Markets, and the State
1) Joe Masco: On the value of synthetic forests
2) Clark A. Miller: Governmentality and the globe
3) Samuel Randalls: Selling weather derivatives: Weather, risk and climate change
4) Rebecca Lave: Stream restoration: Emerging discipline, emerging market

3:35PM – 3:50PM Break (with snacks)

3:50PM – 5:30PM
Discussion, synthesis, and reflection (Discussants: Greg Mitman, Amit Prasad, Leila Harris)

5:30PM – 6:30PM Reception at the Pyle Center

DAY 2: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 (8:00AM – 12:50PM)
IV. Science in Dialogue, Nature in networks: Theory and Methods of Knowledge Circulation and Assemblage

8:00AM – 9:35AM
IV.1. Techniques of Conceptualization and Categorization: The Politics of Naming, Cataloguing, Measuring, and Planning for Nature and ‘the Environment’
1) Mrill Ingram: Characterizations and categorizations of microbes
2) Ryan Galt: Local-global discontinuities in agro-food markets: Scientific risk
3) Mara Goldman: Conservation corridors: Constructing continuity
4) Joan Fujimura: Conceptualizing environments in human systems biology

9:35AM – 9:50AM Break (coffee and snacks)

9:50AM – 11:25AM
IV.2. Divergent (Interdisciplinary) Framings of Nature and Evolving Ecologies
1) Karl Zimmerer: Euro-American knowledge networks and the Andean world in the proto-environmental science of Alexander von Humboldt
2) Chris Duvall: Divergent environmental narratives in divergent scientific traditions: Ferricrete and forests in Africa
3) Paul Nadasdy Adaptive co-management and the politics of resilience
4) Yen-Chu Weng: Negotiating nature in the process of recreating nature: A critical investigation of restoration ecology

11:25AM – 11:35AM Short Break

11:35AM – 12:50PM
Discussion, synthesis, and reflection: (Discussants: Frances Westley, Samer Alatout)

* Director, Matthew Turner, Department of Geography. EDARC is a member program of the International Institute, UW-Madison.
** Director, Linda Hogle, Medical History and Bioethics
*** 20 min/talk (15 min for talk and 5 min for questions), then 15 min at end of each session for questions.