Please NOTE, I am forwarding this for a colleague. If you're interested in participating in this panel, please contact Professor Jahiel at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . There is also still time for other members of the list to submit panel and individual proposals for the conference! Wil
Dr. Wil Burns, President, AESS Associate Director, Master of Science, Energy Policy & Climate Program Johns Hopkins University 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 650.281.9126 (Mobile) 202.452.8713 (Fax) http://energy.jhu.edu Skype ID: Wil.Burns Blog: Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy, http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org <http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/> CALL for papers for proposed panel for the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) 2014 Conference: 'Welcome to the Anthropocene: >From Global Challenge to Planetary Stewardship', June 11-14, 2014, Pace University, New York City. Panel Name: Educating for Planetary Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Bringing Asia into the Environmental Classroom Panel Proposal: The profound alteration of the planet's climate, with its effects on a wide array of species and crucial ecosystems (including fresh water and fertile land) is having an overwhelming impact on the peoples of Asia, even as they themselves have become a critical part of the global geophysical forces disrupting the planetary balance. Understanding the ecological challenges peoples of Asia face, and the complex human causes of these challenges (economic, political, cultural; local, regional, international), can promote planetary stewardship by American citizens. How can we educate students in our environmental studies classes to understand Asia's environmental problems and the connections between Asia, ourselves, and our global ecological predicament? What are the challenges we face in doing so? What pedagogies have been successful? I propose a panel on pedagogical work to ground Asia within the ES curriculum, and am looking for contributors. Pedagogical work might take the form of: a) inclusion of significant Asian case studies within existing ES courses; b) development of new courses specifically designed around some aspect(s) of Asia and the environment; c) short term ES travel courses conducted in Asia; or d) co-curricular programs or programmatic approaches employed by ES departments to bring Asia into the ES curriculum. Contributions from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities are all welcome, as are contributions on other topics related to the panel theme. My own paper will be an overview examining how institutions of higher learning are presently addressing Asia within their ES curriculum and why including Asia as a central focus within the ES curriculum is necessary for planetary stewardship in the Anthropocene. If you are interested in contributing to this proposed panel, please contact me, Abigail Jahiel, by January 28, 2014 at [email protected]. Final proposals and abstracts are due February 4th. Abigail Jahiel Associate Professor of Environmental and International Studies Illinois Wesleyan University -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
