Workshop Schedule Spring 2013 (at 11:00 in 2115 Art-Sociology)
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