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California State University, Long BeachSPRING 2008 EVENTS
Guest SpeakersWednesday, February 20, 2008"The Great Debate: Anthropology Goes to War" 4:00 p.m. Karl W. E. Anatol Conference Room (AS-110) Free and open to the public. First come, first seated. Anthropology, as the other social sciences, is at a perilous juncture as universities become increasingly tied into the industrial-military complex, and anthropologists, both within the academy and outside, strive to develop standards for ethical conduct within a rapidly changing world. With recent revelations in the New York Times that anthropologists are being “embedded” in military units in Iraq and Afghanistan old questions about transparency, confidentially, the protection of human subjects and the role of anthropology have risen to the surface again. These issues have been debated on websites (such as the Society for Applied Anthropology) and at the American Anthropological Association meetings in December, the most contentious AAA meeting in more than a decade. The upcoming debate at CSULB, however, will be the first, live public debate on this topic at a college campus in the U.S. Confirmed Participants:
Tentative Schedule: 4:00 p.m.-4:05 p.m. Opening comments by Gerry Riposa, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and former Marine. 4:05 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Introductions and background information for audience. 4:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Discussion of AAA Executive Board Statement on the Human Terrain System 4:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m. Questions and Answers 5:05 p.m.-5:35 p.m. Discussion of AAA committee report on anthropological engagement with the military released on December 1, 2007. 5:35 p.m.-6:05 p.m. Open Forum. 6:05 p.m.-6:20 p.m. Closing comments. For further information regarding this event, please contact Professor Ron Loewe at rloewe@csulb.edu.
Thursday, March 13, 2008Donald P. Lauda Wellness LectureDr. Laura Mosqueda (UCI Medical School and first Ronald W. Reagan Endowed Chair in Geriatrics) "Alzheimer's: Hope on the Horizon" 6:30 p.m. The Pointe, The Pyramid Free and open to the public. First come, first seated. Dr. Laura Mosqueda, professor of family medicine and director of geriatrics at the UC Irvine College of Medicine, is a board-certified family physician and geriatrician, and she is the medical director of the UCI SeniorHealth Center at UCI Medical Center in Orange. In addition, her efforts have led to the creation of the nation’s first Elder Abuse Forensic Center, which brings together UCI medical experts and representatives of Orange County’s Adult Protective Services, Sheriff’s Department, Office of District Attorney, Public Guardian and other agencies in a coordinated battle against elder abuse. Mosqueda also has testified before the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging regarding abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly. Mosqueda has extensive experience in developing, implementing and teaching courses on elder abuse for physicians, law enforcement officers and prosecutors. Locally, Mosqueda serves as a member of Adult Protective Services’ multidisciplinary team and fiduciary abuse specialist team. She also created and implemented the Student Senior Partner Program, an educational program that pairs UCI medical students with older adults in the community, an experience that allows students to apply classroom learning to real world experience. These older adults become important mentors and teachers for their student partners.
Monday, March 17, 2008Julianne Lutz Newton "Land that We Love: Aldo Leopold's Ecological Leadership" 3:30 p.m. Psychology Building, Room 150 (PSY-150) Julianne Lutz Newton earned her B.S. in biology from Ithaca College in New York. She has three graduate degrees from the University of Illinois—an M.A. in linguistics, an M.S. in wildlife ecology, and a PhD. in natural resource ecology and conservation biology. Newton is the author of Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac.
Thursday, April 10, 2008Thoric Cederstrom (Food Security and Food Policy for International Relief and Development) "Malnutrition at the Margin: The Political Ecology of Global Hunger" 11:00 a.m. Karl W. E. Anatol Conference Room (AS-110) Currently, some 820 million people in the world suffer hunger from not getting enough protein and energy to eat. Another two billion are unable to meet their daily requirements for vitamins and minerals, leading to a host of micronutrient-related diseases and deficiencies. And yet, globally there exists enough food resources to meet protein-energy requirements and enough financial resources to produce sufficient micronutrients. Dr. Cederstrom’s presentation will explore these contradictions by examining some of the complex linkages in global hunger, the role of food aid, and the role of anthropology in promoting truly sustainable development and solving the world food problem. Dr. Thoric Cederstrom is an expert in sustainable agriculture and food security and has extensive experience in food security assessment, program design, and evaluation. He has published extensively on an array of food security topics related to strengthening the linkages between agriculture and nutrition in areas affected significantly by HIV/AIDS.
Monday, April 14, 2008Jenny Price (University of California, Los Angeles) "Beyond Light Bulbs: Forging a New Environmentalism on the LA River" 3:30 p.m. Psychology Building, Room 150 (PSY-150) Jenny Price is a writer and environmental historian, and author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. She has published in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Audubon, Believer, and GOOD, and contributes to the "Native Intelligence" column on LA Observed. A 2005-6 Guggenheim Fellow, she has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She happily gives tours of the L.A. River, and is working on a new book, Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.
Monday, April 21, 2008Eric Higgs (University of Victoria) "Restoration and Reinhabitation: Finding Place in a Technological Culture" 3:30 p.m. Psychology Building, Room 150 (PSY-150) Eric Higgs is a Professor in and Director of the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. He has held regular and visiting appointments at the Universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Waterloo, the Polytechnic University of New York, Oberlin College, and MIT. He received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in philosophy and environmental studies at the University of Waterloo in 1988, and has situated his scholarly research between conventional disciplines: philosophy, ecology, and anthropology in particular. Higgs' teaching focuses on contemporary environmental and cultural issues, including ecological restoration and the effects of technology on communities. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Higgs served as chair of the Society for Ecological Restoration International. Dr. Higgs’ books include Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration (MIT Press, April 2003), Technology and the Good Life?, co-edited with Andrew Light and David Strong (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930, with Ian MacLaren and Gaby Zezulka-Mailloux (University of Alberta Press, 2006). His current field research is on historical ecology and landscape change in mountainous regions of Western Canada and how such knowledge guides ecological restoration and management (see bridgland.sunsite.ualberta.ca and mountainlegacy.ca).
Wednesday, April 23, 2008Robert Michael Pyle "The Love of Damaged Land: Intimacy as an Antidote to the Extinction of Experience" 3:30 p.m. Karl W. E. Anatol Conference Room (AS-110) Robert Michael Pyle earned his B.S. from the University of Washington in Nature Perception and Protection, and an M.S. in Nature Interpretation. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 1971, during a Fulbright Fellowship at the Monks Wood Experimental Station in England, Pyle founded the Xerces Society for invertebrate conservation, and later headed its Monarch Project. Pyle has worked on giant birdwing butterfly conservation in Papua, New Guinea and as Northwest Land Steward for The Nature Conservancy; and, in 1997, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology. A professional writer for 25 years, Pyle has published hundreds of essays, stories, and poems. His fourteen books include: Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree, Where Bigfoot Walks, Chasing Monarchs, Walking the High Ridge, and Sky Time in Gray’s River, as well as several standard butterfly books. His titles have won the John Burroughs Medal, A Guggenheim Fellowship, and a recent National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. Pyle’s column, “The Tangled Bank,” has appeared in 52 consecutive issues of Orion Magazine. He lives in a rural riverside community in Southwest Washington with his wife, artist and botanist Thea Linnaea Pyle. In his own words... As a biologist and writer, I have worked largely in landscapes that have been heavily abused by logging, agriculture, and development. We cannot throw such lands away. Yet their degradation, together with many other factors of modern life, leads to alienation of the people from the land, apathy, inaction, and still further losses: a baleful cycle I call the Extinction of Experience. How can we look more deeply into the land, love it despite its scars, restore intimate connection, and work to reverse the drainage of diversity? By reclaiming intimacy, we can deflect the dangers of nature deficit disorder while allowing the lands and waters to exercise their own resiliency. Thursday, May 1, 2008Lisa Sullivan (School of the Americas Watch Group) "School of the Americas: Proxy Wars, Terrorism, and the Unquiet Death of Four U.S. 11:00 a.m. Design Building, Room 112 (DESN-112) Lisa Sullivan is a human rights activist and former Maryknoll Lay Missioner who has worked in Bolivia and Venezuela for over 20 years. She has been working with the School of the Americas Watch Group and is heading the Latin American Project of SOA Watch. SOA Watch seeks to shut down the School of Americas, recently renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which is a U.S. Army training school that trains soldiers and military personnel from Latin American countries in subjects like counter-insurgency, military intelligence, and counter-narcotics operations. Over 59 years, SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence, and interrogation tactics. SOA graduates have used their skills to wage wars against their own people.
Performances and FilmsSaturday, February 16, 2008Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight8:00 p.m. Carpenter Performing Arts Center “One of the treasures of the American theatre.” For 49 years Hal Holbrook has enthralled audiences around the world with Mark Twain’s timeless observations on politics, culture and the world! With over 16 hours of Twain’s material in his repertoire, Holbrook makes each performance a unique and memorable experience. If you couldn’t get a ticket to last season’s sold-out performance _ or even if you did _ you won’t want to miss this theatrical legend! $50 Adult; $45 Senior* (*ID Required), Student* (CSULB ID*); $43 Groups of 15 or more, not available online. (Co-sponsored with the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.) Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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