Please join us for a double-header lecture and discussion featuring
Paul Ehrlich and Clive Hamilton, to be held from 5-7pm on Friday, May
10th, in Banatao Auditorium (room 310) in Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC
Berkeley campus. This is the final event in the Berkeley Sawyer
Seminar series on "Speciesism and the Future of Humanity," funded by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The theme of the event is "Problems
with and solutions to global sustainability: culture, biology, and
sociopolitical practices." We very much hope that you can join us.
Please RSVP to [email protected] and [email protected].
About our speakers:
(1) Paul Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Director
of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He is
most popularly know for his 1968 work, The Population Bomb, and has
been a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of
overpopulation, and in raising issues of population, resources, and
the environment as matters of public policy.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/cgi-bin/ccb/content/paul-r-ehrlich
(2) Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and Professor of Public
Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, at
Charles Sturt University. He is best known for his books, a number of
which have been best-sellers. They include Growth Fetish, Affluenza,
What’s Left: The death of social democracy, Silencing Dissent, and
Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change.
http://www.clivehamilton.com
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Best,
Erich Matthes and Karen Andrade
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellows
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Brent D. Mishler
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Director, University and Jepson Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley
Mailing address:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
UNIVERSITY AND JEPSON HERBARIA
1001 VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BLDG # 2465
BERKELEY, CA 94720-2465 USA
Office: 4164 VLSB
Phone: (510) 642-6810 [office and lab]
FAX: (510) 643-5390
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/people/mishler.html
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