The Environment and Development Research Circle Events

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Previous Events, Spring 2005

"Foreign scientific models versus local ecological knowledge: Malaria control in Argentina in the 1930s"
Eric Carter, Department of Geography
Thursday April 28, 3:30-5pm
336 Ingraham Hall

Thirsty in the Rain: Wildlife, communities and conservation in Tanzania (EDARC Talk, co-sponsored by African Studies)
Peter Copolillo, Landscape Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society
March 16, 12 noon
206 Ingraham Hall

Science and Transnational Activism: The Controversy over Genetically Modified Maize in Mexico
Abby Kinchy, Rural Sociology
March 8, 12 NOON
Room 260, Bascom Hall

A Plot of One's Own: Gender, Age and The Problem of Soil Fertility in Africa (Land Tenure Center Brownbag)
Joshua Ramisch, Social Science Officer, Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute (Kenya), and Visiting Scholar, Land Tenure Center
March 1, 12 Noon
175 Science Hall

The role of research in mitigating environmental conflicts: Reflections on studying wildlife 'rogues' and 'raiders' in East Africa and Wisconsin"
Lisa Naughton, Department of Geography
Discussant: Stan Temple, Wildlife Ecology
Feb 16, 3:30-5pm
Room 350, Science Hall,

Spring 2005 Seminar

International Environmental Health & Security – Diseases
900 Seminar, Spring Semester, 2005
Dr. Jonathan Patz, seminar course director
TIME: Wednesdays, 11 – 11:50 am
PLACE: 1710 Univ. Ave. (Enzyme Institute building), Room272
Course Outline (pdf)

Previous Events , Fall 2004

October 19, Tuesday

Morgan Robertson, Department of Geography, UW-Madison
"Drawing Lines in Water: Ecosystem Functional Assessment and the Creation of Wetland Credit Markets" (Paper)
Noon, Room 336 Ingraham Hall

October 27, Wednesday

Joan Fujimura, Director of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Professor of Sociology, UW-Madison
"Social Studies of Scientific Practice: The Promises and Realities of Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues"
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. 260 Bascom

November 4, Thursday

Paul Nadasdy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies
"Cooperative Management: Knowledge-Integration or Business as Usual?"
3:30-5:00 pm, 8417 Social Science

The articles and links are:
Nadasdy, Paul. 1999 "The Politics of TEK: Power and The "Integration" of Knowledge" Arctic Anthropology. 36(1-2):1-18.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Geography/nadasdy99.pdf

Nadasdy, Paul. 2003. "Reevaluating the Co-Management Success Story" ARCTIC 56(4): 367-380.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Geography/nadasdy03.pdf

Cruikshank, Julie. 1998. "The Social Life of Stories: Narrative Knowledge in Yukon Territory. " Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
(chpt. 3: Yukon Arcadia: Oral Tradition, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Fragmentation of Meaning.)
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Geography/cruikshank98.pdf

November 9, Tuesday

Rachel DeMotts, Political Science, UW-Madison
“Participating in Conflict: Living in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique”
Noon 336 Ingraham Hall

November 18, Thursday

Joshua Ramisch, Visiting Scholar, Land Tenure Center, UW-Madison
Social Science Officer, TSBF (Tropical Soil Biology & Fertility Institute, Nairobi)
“ Whose Land Degradation Counts? Engaging Local and Scientific Understandings of Soil Fertility Decline in Western Kenya”
Discussant to the talk: Kevin McSweeney, Professor in Soil Science; Associate Dean, School of Natural Resources
3:30-5:00pm, Room 4308 Social Sciences

December 9, Thursday

Mara Goldman, Department of Geography, UW-Madison
Tracking Wildebeest, Locating Knowledge: Maasai and Conservation Biology Understandings of Wildebeest Behavior in Northern Tanzania
12-1:30 pm, Room 8108 Social Science