PROGRAM LECTURES: THURSDAYS 1-3pm (Mars ¡­

PROGRAM

LECTURES: THURSDAYS 1-3pm (Mars 3, 10, 17, 31, April 7, 14)

SEMINARS: TUESDAYS 10-12am (Mars 8, 15, 29, April 5, 12, 19) Seminar leader:

1. Lecture 3 March: ¡°The Cultural Turn in the Interdisciplinary Studies of Development and the Environment¡± Nina Witoszek

Read: Evernden, The Social Creation of Nature, entire. Croll and Parkin, ¡°Cultural Underpinnings of the Environment¡± Ingold, ¡°Culture and the Perception of the Environment¡± White, Jr. ¡°The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis¡± Huntington, ¡°The Clash of Civilizations¡±

2. Lecture 10 March: ¡°What is Culture?¡± Guest lecturer: Jennifer Schirmer

Read: Bauman, Culture as Praxis.

3. Lecture 17 March: ¡°The Norwegian Nature Tradition: from the Eddas to N?ssianism¡± Nina Witoszek

Read: Chapter 53 and 54 in Witoszek and Brennan, Philosophical Dialogues Witoszek: ¡°The Unromantic Romantics¡±

4. Lecture 31 March: ¡°Nature, Culture and Ideology¡± Nina Witoszek

Read: Douglas, ¡°Environments at Risk¡± Chapter 40, 41, 42, and ¡°postscript¡± in Witoszek and Brennan, Philosophical Dialogues

Optional: Herz, The Silent Takeover

5. Lecture April 7: ¡°Landscape and Memory¡± Nina Witoszek

Read: Schama, ¡°Blood in the Forest¡± Norberg Schulz, ¡°Place?¡±

6. Lecture April 14: ¡°Culture and Society and the Environmental Movement¡± Guest lecturer: Jennifer Schirmer

Read: Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring, entire.