May 31, 2013
noon - 3:00 pm

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, Bechtel Conference Room (Y2E2 299)
 

 


Photo Credit: Robert Dawson, Stanford University

Divining Water brings together scholars, policy-makers, activists, and artists to think through the socio-political contexts of their work on and with water (i.e.., ethics, privatization, legal protections, rights, trans-boundary governance, conflict, and so on).  Traditional approaches to water management, governance and engineering have tended to emphasize design and implementation.  In this final YES seminar we seek to broaden the scope and ask: How can locating the socio-political contexts of water policies and practices address complex issues and transform debates? How do we link people back to the water itself?  How can humanistic approaches be brought to bear to address environmental issues surrounding water?

 

Moderator

 

 

Andrew Fahlund

Executive Director, Water in the West

 


Panelists 

 

 

Serena Ferrando

Ph.D. Candidate, Italian

 

Heather Lukacs

Ph.D. Candidate, E-IPER

 

David M. Kennedy

Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus; Senior Fellow, Emeritus at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

 

Richard Luthy

Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Senior Fellow - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

 

Emma S. Norman

Assistant Professor of Geography, Michigan Technological University

 

Cynthia Truelove

Ph.D., Visiting Researcher, Water in the West and Water-Energy Research Initiative

 

 

 

 

Agenda

 

 

11:30 am

Lunch and Registration

 

12:00 pm

Poem  “The Water Diviner” by Dannie Abse
Read by Kenneth Fields, Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing

 

 

Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Melissa Baird

 

 

Robert Dawson "Picturing the Commons: Understanding Water through Photography"
Robert Dawson, Ph.D., Instructor, Art and Art History

 

 

Panel Discussion

 

 

Q & A and Discussion

 

3:00 pm

Adjourn and Informal Reception

 


Organized by Melissa BairdPostdoctoral Scholar on Global Heritage, Stanford Archaeology Center, Anthropology & Woods Institute for the Environment