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Ecology, Ideology, Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

Posted: Apr. 17th, 2009 | Last modified: Apr. 28th, 2009 | Category: DUCIS Calendar, DUCIS Calendar Archive

Ecology, Ideology, Politics: A Roundtable Discussion


When: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: Friedl Atrium
Cost: Free
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Description: Please join the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Polygraph collective for a roundtable discussion with Tim Morton and Kathy Rudy.

Friday, April 17 | Friedl 115 | 5-7pm

Food and drink will be provided. Questions? Contact: polygraph [Email: polygraph #AT# duke.edu ]

Tim Morton is Professor of (…)

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Lemur disease ecology: Linking health, ecosystem viability & conservation in Madagascar

Posted: Oct. 21st, 2008 | Last modified: Oct. 22nd, 2008 | Category: Funding Opportunities

The growth of human populations and the rapid destruction of forested habitat are bringing humans and wildlife into ever-increasing contact. What does this amplified interaction mean for global public health and biodiversity? Duke PhD student, Meredith Barrett, supported by a DUCIS Graduate Award for Research & Training, traveled to Madagascar in search of answers.

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Towards a Political Ecology 2008-2009

Posted: Sep. 17th, 2008 | Last modified: Nov. 9th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

Intensified by the significant challenge posed to industrial capitalist life by climate change and peak oil is the popular conviction that political and ecological concerns must be addressed together if they are to be addressed at all. Yet how any proposed reconfiguration of politics, economy, and ecology is to be understood remains a subject of much conflict, both intellectual and (…)

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