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The 2006 Institute
Nature Matters: On the Varieties of Environmental Experience
June 19th - August 18th, 2006
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2006 Schedule
Location and Time: MGH 284 from 11 am to 1 pm and 2 to 3 pm, unless otherwise noted.
The schedule is subject to change.
WEEK 1: Introduction: Environmental Humanities, Environmental History
Tuesday, June 20th - Introductions
- Environmentalism: A Global History by Ramachandra Guha
- Institute Lunch and Welcome from Janice DeCosmo (Director, Undergraduate Research Program) and Kathleen Woodward
(Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities)
- Library Orientation with Anne Zald
Wednesday, June 21st - Environmental History
- Wordsworth, Leopold & Lopez
Thursday, June 22nd - Environmental History
- Warren readings
- Film Showing: Mother and Son (Kane 23B)
WEEK 2: Approaches to Environmental Humanities
Tuesday, June 27th - Ecocriticism (J. Alaniz, G. Handwerk) & How do to Research (Suzzallo LIbrary)
- Mitchell & Schama
Wednesday, June 28th - Ecogeography (L. Jarosz)
- Film Showing: The Burning Season
Thursday, June 29th - Ecophilosophy (A. Light) - Download Prof. Light's PowerPoint presentation, "Contemporary Environmental Ethics
(And a Pragmatist Alternative)"
- Institute Tea
[Groups will be set up this week]
WEEK 3: Reading Ecologically
Wednesday, July 5th
- Film Showing: The Burning Season
- Project Brainstorming
Thursday, July 6th
- Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
Friday, July 7th
- Small group research problem (Suzzallo) FREE
[Article précis due this week]
WEEK 4: Cases I-II
(Note: Class meets in MGH 288 on July 11 and TBD on July 12)
Tuesday, July 11th
- Makahs and Whaling (A. Light) - Download Prof. Light's PowerPoint presentation, "Environmental Ethics in Conflict:
The Makah Whale Hunt"- Small Groups
Wednesday, July 12th
- Makahs continued
- Ceremony by Lesley Marmon Silko (G. Handwerk)
- Small Groups
Thursday, July 13th
- Ceremony continued
- Film Showing: Franju's Blood of the Beasts
- Optional: "Why Look at Animals?" by John Berger
- Optional: John Vaillant's New Yorker article, "The Golden Bough"
- Institute Tea
[Project prospectus due this week]
WEEK 5: Cases III-IV
Tuesday, July 18th - Madagascar Deforestation (L. Jarosz)
- Klein's "Deforestation in the Madagascar Highlands"
- Chpt. 8 from Robbins' "Political Ecology"
- Optional: Dove's "Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia"
- Small Groups
Wednesday, July 19
- Madagascar continued
- Parts I & II of Skunk by Pytor Aleskovsky (J. Alaniz)
- Russian environmentalism (J. Alaniz)
- Small Groups
Thursday, July 20
- Part III of Skunk
[Literature review due this week]
WEEK 6: Independent Research
Tuesday, July 25th through Thursday, July 27th
- Conferences with faculty
- Institute Tea on Thursday, July 27t
WEEK 7: Independent research
Tuesday, August 1st through Thursday, August 3rd
- Presentation preparation/individual feedback
WEEK 8: Presentation practice
Tuesday, August 8th & Wednesday, August 9th
- Practice presentations
- Feedback
- Peer review
Thursday, August 10th
- Project draft due
WEEK 9: Summer Institute Symposium on Monday, August 14th in OUGL 220
Final projects are due Monday, August 21st.
