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Nature and Legacy:
Humanists, Scientists and the Environment

We are pleased to announce that the focus of the second annual Humanities/Science Project is the environment.

The Humanities/Science Project is a three-year collaborative program launched by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies and the Cogut Center for the Humanities, fostering critical conversations about life and knowledge. In 2008-2009 the focus was on the scientific and cultural history of evolutionary theory, in the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.

2009-2010 will feature an environmental film series as well as a four-part speaker series called “Nature and Legacy: Humanists, Scientists and the Environment.” Panel discussions will include the topics of “Toxicity,” “Climate Change,” and “The Return of Nature.”

Sponsored by the Committee on Science and Technology Studies, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Center for Environmental Studies, Environmental Change Initiative, John Nicholas Brown Center, and Urban Studies Program.

September 23
"Butte, America"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmakers
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
7:00 - 9:00pm

This documentary, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, reveals the social and environmental costs of mining in Butte, Montana. This is the New England premiere the film chronicles industrial exploitation and its effects on the people and the land. It is the New England film premiere.

This New England film premiere will be followed by discussion with producer/director Pamela Roberts and co-producer/co-writer Edwin Dobb.

For more on the film: http://butteamericafilm.org/

November 5
"Climate Change"
Lectures and panel discussion
Pembroke Hall 305
4:00 - 6:00pm

Speakers:
Elijah Huge ( Wesleyan)
"Architecture after the Well-Tempered Environment"
For an abstract and lecturer bio, click here.

Timmons Roberts ( Brown)
"International Climate Justice: Unequal Risks, Unequal Coping Resources, and the Need for Adequate and Predictable Funding for Developing Countries to Adapt"
For an abstract, click here.

Hugh Ducklow, (Brown/Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole)
"Climate Change: Science, (Un)Certainty and Denial"
For an abstract, click here.

A panel discussion and Q&A will follow individual presentations.

March 18
"Toxicity"
Lectures and panel discussion
Pembroke 305
Time: TBD

Speakers: Brown faculty Kim Boekelheide and Phil Brown, and filmmaker Judy Helfand ("Blue Vinyl").

A Sense of Wonder

Written and performed by Drama Desk Award Nominee
Kaiulani Lee

Nov. 4 - 8:00pm
Solomon 101

A one-woman show about Rachel Carson, “the patron saint of the environmental movement,” A Sense of Wonder has been touring the United States for over ten years. The play has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation, education, journalism, and the environment. Kaiulani Lee has performed it at over one hundred universities as well as at the Smithsonian Institute, the United Nations, the Sierra Club's Centennial in San Francisco, and the Department of the Interior's 150th anniversary celebration.

Sponsored by:

Bio Med Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Campus Life, The Center for Environmental Studies, Dean of the College, Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, The Pembroke Center, The Provost's Office, Religious Studies, the Committee on Science and Technology Studies, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

Literary Investigative Journalism

"Making the Truth Truthful: Turning Science into Storytelling"

November 11 - 6:30pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106

David Shenk '88

David Shenk '88 is the author of five books, including The Immortal Game, The Forgetting, and Data Smog. Currently a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, he has advised the President's Council on Bioethics.

Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series Organized by Brown University Department of English

Who Counts?:
Science, Demography and the Social

"'There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama':
The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism"

November 17 - 4:00pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.

Jennifer L. Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies
Harvard University

February 11
Omnia El Shakry
Associate Professor of History
UC Davis

Sponsored by COSTS, members of the Anthropology Department, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the History Department, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University.