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Julie Klinger: On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of Our Possible Futures

Date and Time: 
March 29, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Turing Auditorium
Contact Email: 
akasper@carnegiescience.edu
Contact Phone: 
650-319-8904
Event Sponsor: 
Carnegie Institution for Science - Department of Global Ecology

Julie Michelle Klinger PhD Geography, is an assistant professor of international relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. 

Julie specializes in the political economy and political ecology of strategic mineral resources in China, Brazil, and Outer Space. Her ethnographic and policy research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung, and she has published in The Extractive Industries and Society, the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Nueva Sociedad.  Dr. Klinger has a book manuscript on the global geography of the rare earth mining and prospecting currently under review with Cornell University Press.

Reception to Follow in the DGE Lobby (260 Panama Street)