More outside lecture opportunities

In addition to the lectures mentioned here, the following outside lecture opportunities are coming up over the next two weeks.

Monday (TODAY) March 22 4:00 p.m.
"Images of a Changing Arctic and the Futures They Represent" in Classroom F
Professor David Caron
Law School Classroom F
"an interactive seminar"

David Caron is the President-Elect of the American Society of International Law, and the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Tuesday, March 23 7pm
Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons
"Herculaneum: Living with catastrophe"
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Archaeological excavations in both towns are ongoing and last year in particular yielded several major discoveries in Herculaneum.The Department of Classics is proud to present Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project, who will be discussing recent discoveries and the largest conservation project of a classical archaeological site. All are welcome. The lecture is free and open to the public. More information is available here.

Thursday March 25 12:15 PM - 1:15 AM???
The Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass
A Chesapeake Bay Program - Brown Bag Lunch
Huntley Hall 323

Dr. David Secor, from the University of Maryland CES/Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, will present "The Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass: Estuarine Homebody or Coastal Vagabond? Sewer Trout or Environmental Sentinel? Overfished or Resilient? Consumed or Consumer?" Dr. Secor will review how the life history and ecology of the Chesapeake Bay striped bass contributed to its apparent resiliency to climate change, habitat degradation, and fishing. He will also discuss ecosystem-based management of the bass including food web interactions, climate change, and biodiversity.

Wednesday April 2, 2010 12:15 PM - 1:15 AM
The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus (2010 Earle Bates Lecturer)
Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons

Dr. Mitchell Thomashow, President of Unity College in Maine, is well-known nationally in environmental circles. He is a scholar and writer who is specifically interested in developing reflective, interdisciplinary pedagogy for undergraduate and graduate programs in Environmental Studies. Dr. Thomashow will propose "Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus,"designed to evoke a whole new twenty-first century catalogue of transformational sustainable practices for higher education that will help train a new generation of leaders.This presentation will be of interest to faculty, staff and students as he discusses Infrastructure, Community, and Learning. Sponsored by the Program in Environmental Studies.