imaging environment:
Maps, Models, and Metaphors
Conference jointly sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Woods Institute for the Environment
statement | speakers | schedule
November 8 - 10, 2006
All lectures free and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 8
- 7:00 p.m. OPENING ADDRESS
William Cronon , University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Culture of Landscape and the Nature of Politics
Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University
Thursday, November 9
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
- 10:00 a.m. Conference Session
Michael Pollan , UC Berkeley
The Human Bumblebee: A Plant's Eye View of Us - 12:00 p.m. Break
Elinor Ostrom , Indiana University, Bloomington
Mapping Institutional Landscapes
Moderator: David Kennedy, History, Stanford University
- 1:30 p.m. Conference Session
Eric Lambin , University of Louvain, Belgium
The Earth on a Tightrope: Mapping Land Change Using Earth Observation Satellites
Harriet Ritvo , MIT
Principled Arguments and Lost Causes: Defending Unspoiled Countryside
Moderator: Pamela Matson, Environmental Studies, Stanford University
- 3:30 p.m. Break
- 4:00 p.m. Special Session
Remarks by John Felstiner: Poetry and Environmental Urgency
10,000 Shovels Film Screening and Panel
Karen Seto, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Christian Henriot, History, Lumiere-Lyon 2 University, France
Scott Rozelle, Economics, Stanford University
Matthew Sommer, History, Stanford University
Moderator: Chris Morris, History, The University of Texas at Arlington
10,000 Shovels uses satellite imagery, historic photos, and contemporary film footage to illustrate the dramatic processes of urbanization, landscape changes, and the parallel sociological changes in southern China.
- 7:00 p.m. Concert of Music on Ecology and the Environment
CCRMA
The Knoll
660 Lomita Court, Stanford University
* Limited seating*Concert co-sponsored by the
Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts
Friday, November 10
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
- 10:00 a.m. Conference Session
Candace Slater , UC Berkeley
Geoparks and Geo-Stories: The UNESCO Araripe Basin Geopark Proposal and Other Transformation Narratives from Northeast Brazil
Jose Sarukhan, Insituto de Ecologia, UNAM
Bioinformatics: Intelligence to Manage Natural Capital Sustainably
Moderator: Peter Vitousek, Biological Studies, Stanford University
- 12:00 p.m. Break
- 1:30 p.m. Conference Session
Anne Whiston Spirn , MIT
Restoring Mill Creek: Maps, Models, and Metaphors in City Planning and Design
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
Imagining the Unimaginable: Competing Narratives of Ecological Terrorism
Moderator: Ursula Heise, English, Stanford University
- 3:30 p.m. Break
- 4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Don Kennedy, Biological Studies, Stanford University (Emeritus)
- 6:00 p.m. Conference Closing and "Sliding Scale: Gail Wight" Exhibition Reception
Art Gallery
419 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University
November 7 - December 8, 2006
Related Exhibit: "SLIDING SCALE"
Work by Gail Wight
Art Gallery
419 Lasuen Mall
Stanford University
Exhibit co-sponsored by the
Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts
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—Stanford President John Hennessy
Past Presidential Lectures available online
Douglas Hofstadter's February 6, 2006 lecture Analogy as the Core of Cognition and Amy Gutmann's April 24, 2006 lecture Extremism are now available in QuickTime and RealPlayer formats.
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