Sustainability Events, 4/2 - 4/8
If you missed David Bollier's talk, "The Commons as a Counterpoint to the Market/State Duopoly," you can view the video here.
James L. Wescoat, Jr.: "Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape"Thursday, April 5, at 4:10pm in Cohen 203
James L. Wescoat, Jr., is Aga Khan Professor in the Aga Khan Program for
Islamic Architecture at M.I.T. His research has concentrated on water
systems in South Asia and the US from the site to river basin scales. He
led the Smithsonian
Institution's project titled, "Garden, City, and Empire: The Historical
Geography of Mughal Lahore," which resulted in a co-edited volume on Mughal
Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, Prospects, and The Mughal
Garden: Interpretation, Conservation, and Implications with colleagues from
the University of Engineering and Technology-Lahore.
More recently, he led an NSF-funded project on "Water and Poverty in Colorado." He is currently
conducting comparative research on international water problems. In 2003,
he published Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy with
geographer Gilbert F. White (Cambridge University Press); and in 2007 he
co-edited Political Economies of Landscape Change: Places of Integrative
Power (Springer Publishing) for LAF Landscape Futures Initiative.
Sponsors: The 2011/12 "Sacred Ecology" Faculty Fellows Program of the Warren
Center for the Humanities and the History of Art Department.
Symposium: A Responsible Endowment for Vanderbilt
Friday, April 6th, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
126 Wilson Hall
Featuring the Oakland Institute and the Responsible Endowments Coalition
It's our endowment, it's our responsibility. Join the Responsible
Endowment Campaign in talking about the endowment at Vanderbilt and how
we can work together to ensure our investments reflect the values of our
University.
- Part 1 - Anuradha Mittal (Executive Director of the
Oakland Institute) and Jeff Furman (Oakland Institute Board and Chair of
the Ben & Jerry's Corporate Board) present their research on
Vanderbilt’s investment in Africa
- Part 2 - Dan Apfel (Executive Director of the Responsible Endowments
Coalition) discusses how Vanderbilt University can move toward a more
responsible endowment structure like Columbia, Yale, Brown, and Duke
FREE BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM!
Call for Participants: Shade Grown
Wednesday, April 18, 5:00 pm
Commons Dining Hall
Please join the Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) as we celebrate Earth Day with Shade Grown,
a coffee house and open mic night showcasing creative performances
related to sustainability and the environment. SEMO will be partnering
with Vanderbilt Dining and the Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies
to provide free shade grown coffee and cake. The event will take place
Wednesday, April 18 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm in the Commons Dining Hall,
please come out and join us! If you know of any students or staff who
would be interested in sharing poetry, spoken word, songs, stand-up
comedy, or other short performances related to sustainability and the
environment, please have them contact our office by emailing recycle@vanderbilt.edu or calling 3.2784. While
advance notice of intent to perform is not required, participants
giving advance notice will be given priority. Contributors are
encouraged to limit performances to 10 minutes or less. Consideration
will be given to longer works; however, advanced notification is
required.
Stay Connected and Spread the Word!
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4/5 4:10 p.m.
James Wescoat, Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape
4/6 4:00 p.m.
Symposium: A Responsible Endowment for Vanderbilt
4/18 12:00 p.m.
Green Bag Luncheon Series: Northwest Earth Institute Course Intro
4/18 5:00 p.m.
Shade Grown: An Evening of Environmental Poetry, Spoken Word, Songs, Comedy and Short Performances
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