Interdisciplinary Conversations in
Environmental Psychology
Thursdays 12:00 - 1:30
Room 6304.01
9/3 Welcome, Program Organization And Upcoming Events, Summer Show and Tell
9/10 Polly Thistlethwaite, Mina Rees Library, Graduate Center. “Knowing and Negotiating the Library’s Resources for Environmental Social Science”
9/17 Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Urban Affairs and Planning,
Hunter College. “Pragmatic PAR: The Roosevelt Island Access Study”
9/24 John Paul Jones III, Geography, University of Arizona. “A Bug's Life and the Spatial Ontologies of Mosquito Management”
10/1 Program Discussion I (First of a series of conversations about where we are going as a Program, and how to get there creatively.)
10/8 Tarry Hum, Urban Studies, Queens College. “ Immigrant Growth Coalitions and Neighborhood Change: The Role of Ethnic Banks”
10/15 No Meeting (Google Lunch and Tour for First Year Students)
10/22 Gretchen Susi , Aspen Institute, “ Racial Equity Mapping: Dismantling Structural Racism in Jacksonville, Florida”
10/29 Ghislaine Hermanuz , Architecture and Urban Design, City College. “African Square”
11/5 Program Discussion II (Second of a series of conversations about where we are going as a Program, and how to get there creatively.)
11/12 Deirdre Conlon, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College. ““ Rules of Engagement: Governmentality, ‘Technologies of Citizenship,’ Seeking Asylum.”
11/19 Jeff Maskovsky, Urban Studies, Queens College. "The New, New Poverty Studies: Ethnographic Views of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the 21st Century United States."
12/3 Anupama Nallari, Environmental Psychology Program. “ Public Space from No Space! Developing a Participatory Planning Model for Slums in India” & Chung Chang, Environmental Psychology Program. “The Advantage of Mapping Gentrification with Geographic Information Systems: Comparison of Three New York City Neighborhoods, 1980-present”
12/10 Film! ”Messages from Paradise #1 Egypt:Austria: About the Permanent Longing for Elsewhere.” A documentary film by Daniela Swarowsky, artist and cultural producer, Stichting ZiM, Rotterdam &
Samuli Schielke , research fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin.
2010
2/4 Group Discussion: Thinking through our website/Thinking through our Program
2/11 Sheridan Bartlett, IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) and Children’s Environments Research Group at The Graduate Center. “Toilets: Humiliation, Aspiration and Rights.”
2/18 (Monday Schedule)
2/25 Mike Menser, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College. "Territory, Social Reproduction and Food Sovereignty: The Brooklyn Food Coalition and La Via Campesina."