[SustainableTompkins] Events: Interspecies Co-Production and Other Interventions

[Daniel Roth]

*ISS Contentious Knowledge Project Update

/This Week's Events
/Thursday, January 24
/Interspecies Co-Production and Other Interventions
/*4:30 p.m., Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Beatriz <http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/> da Costa 
<http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/> (Professor of Arts Computation 
Engineering, UC Irvine) will discuss her recent work addressing air 
pollution and environmental justice. As an interdisciplinary artist and 
researcher, da Costa is particularly interested in the role an artist 
might occupy when operating at the intersection of art, science and 
activism. Her /PigeonBlog/ project is a collaborative project between 
homing pigeons, artists, engineers and pigeon fanciers engaged in a 
grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and 
distribute information about air quality conditions. A current related 
project entitled /AIR /(a project by Preemptive Media)/, /enables 
interested humans to build and design their own air pollution sensing 
devices and find out more about the air quality condition in their own 
neighborhoods. In 2006, together with biologist Tau-Mu Yi, she attempted 
to design carbon monoxide sensitive yeast cells expressing color upon 
exposure to ambient air elevated carbon monoxide concentrations. da 
Costa will discuss these and other projects, exemplifying her attempts 
to bridge disciplinary discourses and practices in the pursuit for 
social change.

*Friday, January 25
/A Conversation with Beatriz da Costa
/*Beatriz da Costa <http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/>, Professor of Arts 
Computation Engineering, UC Irvine
9:30-11 a.m., 146 Myron Taylor Hall (ISS Conference Room)
This informal seminar is an opportunity for the public to discuss 
Beatriz da Costa's recent research with her.
/Pastries will be served.

*Next Week's Events
*/*January 28, 2008
/Hybrid Intellectuals: Think Tanks and Public Policy Experts in the 
United States/*/
/Tom Medvetz <http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/0609/Medvetz.html>, 
ISS Postdoctoral Associate
4:30 p.m., 374 Rockefeller Hall
/Sponsored by Science and Technology Studies

/*February 1, 2008
/Graduate Fellow Research Workshop
/*Six seed grant recipients will present their projects.
12:00-5:00 p.m., 146 Myron Taylor Hall (ISS Conference Room)

*/Upcoming Events
/**February 4, 2008
/Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy
/*Arjun Makhijani <http://www.ieer.org/vitaarj.html>, President, 
Institute for Energy & Environmental Research, Maryland
4:30 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
/Co-sponsored with the Peace Studies Program, Development Sociology, 
Center for the Environment, and the Department of Government./

*February 8, 2008
/ Textbook Controversies Workshop
<http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/0609/Textbook.html>/*10 a.m.-5 
p.m., 423 ILR Conference Center
/Please reply to this email to RSVP for the complimentary lunch.
/Public controversies over textbooks, curricular reform, and school 
policies highlight the domain of education as an important arena of 
civil engagement. Education in the social sciences, such as history and 
politics, have provoked important debates about whether education is 
intended to integrate students, encouraging them to conform to 
particular community or national standards, or whether education is 
intended to provide students with an ability to be critical of their 
larger societies. These vociferous debates have pitted concerned 
parents, educators, legislators, and state-appointed officials against 
one another, with each constituency mobilizing particular groups and 
interests. This workshop focuses on episodes of political jockeying over 
what constitutes appropriate knowledge for public education, 
particularly for school-age children. The papers will consider how 
knowledge becomes contentious through these disputes, whose interests 
are served, and how public education might best promote and critique 
civil society.*

*/For the current list of Spring 08 team events, see/ 
http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/0609/events.html
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Anneliese Truame
ISS Administrative Coordinator
Institute for the Social Sciences
www.socialsciences.cornell.edu
<http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/>Cornell University
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Ithaca, NY 14853
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Daniel Roth	
Sustainability Coordinator 
Office of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability 
Cornell University  
www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu

Youth Action Team Co-Chair
US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
www.uspartnership.org

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