The Workshop on Society and the Environment
The Workshop on Society and the Environment provides a meeting space for faculty and students in Sociology, BSOS, and around the University with common interests. Run as a seminar series, it will engage graduate students and faculty to present research in-progress and prepare collaborative projects. The workshop will be held every-other week during spring 2013 on Wednesdays at 11-12:30 in the Seminar room in 2115 Art-Sociology. The first session will take place on January 30th
Schedule:
January 30: Welcome and Introductions
February 13: Sabrina McCormick, Assistant Research Faculty in the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, “The Social Construction and Co-Production of Heat Wave-Related Death: Building A Sociological Framework for Climate Impacts.”
February 27: Isabella Alcañiz, Department of Government and Politics, UMD, “Nuclear Energy in the Developing World.”
March 13: Joseph Waggle and Dana R. Fisher, “Unpacking the Meaning of Scientific Consensus: The Case of Climate Change Science and Politics.”
March 27: Drew Gerkey, Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) University of Maryland, College Park, “Households, Subsistence Networks, and Human Dimensions of Sustainability in Alaska.”
April 10: Jennifer Hadden, and Lucia Seybert. “Norm Evolution and the Limits of Institutionalization: The Case of ‘Sustainable Development,’ 1992-2012.”
April 24: Edward Maibach, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, “Focusing climate change public engagement efforts with communication research”
May 8: End of Semester Brainstorming