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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 (Suzzallo 102A) (Visit the UW library's Summer Institute site , which was designed by Anne.)

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.

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