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 Næssianism” 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.