This afternoon event will be a focused discussion of China's environmental challenges with featured guest lectures by Professor Emi Uchida (URI), Dr. Hengwei Liu (Tufts University, Harvard University ), Dr. Xingshu Zhao (Tufts University) and Professor Robert Kaufmann (Boston University). In addition to prepared talks, there will be opportunities for discussion with the speakers and other attendees. The GISP class members will also have informal poster displays related to topics that we have covered this semester. This symposium, titled “From Gray Skies to Green Energy: China's Changing Environment in the 21st Century”, is sponsored by the Brown Center for Environmental Studies, the Brown Office of International Affairs, and the Dean of the College.

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E&EB BROWN BAG SEMINAR

Amber Hardison, Postdoctoral Research Associate

“Carbon and nitrogen cycling within the sediment microbial community”

Friday, December 3, noon

Eddy Auditorium, Bio Med Center #291, 171 Meeting Street

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PIZZA ROUNDTABLE WITH ARCHAEOLOGIST MICHAEL HECKENBERGER

Students are invited to the Haffenreffer Museum at Manning Hall on Thursday December 2 at 1:00 p.m. for our next Pizza Roundtable

discussion. Museum guest, Michael Heckenberger (Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Florida) will discuss archaeological work in the Upper Xingu region of the southern Amazon. Please RSVP to

Geralyn Hoffman at 401-253-8388 or Geralyn_Hoffman@brown.edu by noon on December 1 since we have limited space. Then, join us for Dr. Heckenberger’s lecture that evening at 5:30 p.m.

Lecture topic: Reimagining the Amazon

The Amazon holds a special place in the Western imagination.

The world’s largest tropical forest is often portrayed as pristine nature, little impacted by the region’s isolated, small-scale societies. Today, it is an icon for international concerns regarding global ecological change, as rapid deforestation and ecological degradation threaten much of the region. However, the image of indigenous cultural uniformity – as “primitive” peoples relatively unchanged until recently – remains deeply entrenched in popular and scientific discourse. Recent studies of long-term history radically change this image, revealing substantial cultural diversity and

dynamic change, including large, densely settled pre-Columbian polities in several areas. The Upper Xingu region of the southern Amazon, in the so-called “arc of deforestation,” is one such area. Archaeology and historical ethnography document pre-Columbian networks of towns and villages in small territorial polities, arguably an Amazonian variant of multi-centric urbanization, and dramatic change over the past few centuries. These studies, conducted in collaboration with descendant communities, highlight the heterogeneous nature of scientific knowledge production and the intersection of indigenous histories and cultural rights and the contemporary politics of nature, including global and regional issues of conservation and development. This program takes place in Peterutti Lounge at the Roberts Campus Center (Faunce House) and is sponsored by donors to the Jane Powell Dwyer Memorial lecture fund and the Friends of the HMA. Reception to follow at the Haffenreffer Museum.

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GREEN LIVING FAIR

Come to Brown’s 1st Annual Green Living Fair on December 8th from 12-3pm in Sayles AUD. There will be representatives from the green engineering, food, clothing, and advocacy sectors and samples of six different eco-conscious cleaning products. Furthermore, students will talk about past environmental internships and green giving for the holidays and staff will discuss the intricacies of being a sustainable citizen of Brown. Take the first step towards your green internship/job/life!

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Internships and Opportunities

World Wildlife Fund

Title: Program Associate, Social Science/Protected Area Governance
Location: Washington, DC

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global conservation organization seeks
an entry-level social scientist to work with its social science team
to examine patterns, trends, causes, and implications of protected
area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD). The Program
Associate will focus on development, implementation, and maintenance
of a global PADDD database; and support national case-study analyses
of PADDD. This position has an initial duration of 1.5 years, with
the possibility of extension based on funding.

A Bachelors degree or related experience in a social science
(political science, economics, anthropology, etc.) or an
interdisciplinary B.A. with substantial social science training is
required. Masters degree is preferred. Experience with database
development and management; familiarity with biodiversity
conservation; and the ability to work both independently and in a team
is also required. Two years international experience in biodiversity
conservation or related field; strong quantitative and statistical
skills; experience with qualitative data and interdisciplinary
research; and foreign language skills is preferred. The ability to
travel is required. Please submit a cover letter and CV for this
position by December 3, 2010.

AA/EOE Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. To submit cover
letter and CV please visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/careers, job
# 11079.

Center for Environmental Studies Box 1943 135 Angell Street Providence, RI 02912 Telephone: (401) 863-3449 Fax: (401) 863-3503

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Center for Environmental Studies
Box 1943
135 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3449
Fax: (401) 863-3503

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