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Olin Rice 249
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-696-6274
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Fall 2008 EnviroThursday Schedule
12 noon, Olin-Rice Room 250
September 4, 2008
September 11, 2008
September 18, 2008
September 25, 2008
Speaker: Ellen Arnold, Macalester History Department
October 2, 2008
October 9, 2008
"Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Nationalism, and Development in Argentina"
Speaker: Eric Carter, Assistant Professor of Geography, Dept of Anthropology, Grinnell College
Eric Carter's will examine the discovery, control, and eradication of malaria in Argentina, from 1890 to 1950. Readers who associate malaria with the tropics may be surprised to learn that this mostly temperate country with noted European influences once suffered the scourge of malaria. Yet the disease was once endemic to the country's subtropical northwestern region, in a typical year afflicting hundreds of thousands of people. His central argument is that malaria control was driven by a larger project of constructing a modern identity for Argentina. Insofar as development meant building a more productive, rational, orderly, hygienic, and healthy society, the persistence of a "tropical" disease such as malaria prevented Argentina from joining the ranks of "modern nations." Development models, which hinged upon a sometimes muddled understanding of the relationship among disease, society, and the environment, had a direct influence on malaria control "on-the-ground" -- with surprising consequences.
This talk is supported by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Geography and Environmental Studies Departments.
October 16, 2008 - No EnviroThursday - Fall Break
October 23, 2008
Speaker: Raj Patel, visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
Raj Patel is also a visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, a Fellow at the Institute of Food and Development Policy and a Research Associate at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has just returned from two years working in South Africa, based out of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Before that, he was a Policy Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, where he learned about the importance of land struggles, and got involved with The Land Research Action Network
October 30, 2008
November 6, 2008
November 13, 2008
November 20, 2008
November 27, 2008 - No EnviroThursday - Thanksgiving
December 4, 2008
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