Schedule of Events, Thursday, Feb. 4
Join us on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 4, for a keynote presentation hosted by the UI Public Policy Center–
Forkenbroch Series on Public Policy
Tim McCollow, Milwaukee’s Urban Garden Program
HOME GR/OWN: Milwaukee’s Social Justice Challenges and the Role for Urban Gardens
7:00 pm / 100 Philips Hall
Details on the Obermann Center website and the Public Policy website.
Schedule of Events, Friday, Feb. 5
Iowa City Public Library Room A
Lunch provided to all who register.
All sessions will be held at the Iowa City Public Library
10:30 Opening Session—Where We Are Now in Teaching Sustainability Across the Disciplines
Teresa Mangum, Director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
Welcome and Overview of the Day
Jerry Schnoor, Allen S. Henry Chair, Engineering; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Occupational and Environmental Health; Director, Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research, College of Engineering
Report from Paris—COP21, The 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change
Liz Christiansen, Director, UI Office of Sustainability
Meet the students fromthe Sustainability Certificate Program and Other Sustainability Oriented Classes (short video)
11:30-12:30 Pecha Kucha Presentations Part I—Teaching Sustainability from a Single Assignment to a Class to a Curriculum
Roland Racevskis, Professor, French and Italian, CLAS
Ion Bogdan Vasi, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CLAS and College of Business
Larry Weber, Director and Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydralics, IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering and Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory, College of Engineering
Shaun Vecera, Professor, Psychology, CLAS
12:30-1:30 Agenda Lunch (Participants must register by Monday, Feb. 1 to attend lunch)
1:30-2:30 Presentations Part II—Teaching Sustainability from a Single Assignment to a Class to a Curriculum
Anita Jung, Professor, Art and Art History, CLAS
John Doershuk, State Archaeologist, Office of the State Archaeologist and Lecturer, Anthropology, CLAS
Meena Khandelwal, Anthropology and Gender, Women’s, Sexuality Studies, CLAS
David Collins, Lecturer, Department of Marketing, College of Business
Teaching Sustainability - Across the Disciplines 