2015-2016 Teale Lecture Series

16 October 2015

“Island Ecosystems as Models for Human-Environment Interaction”
Peter Vitousek
Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Biology and Sykes Family Faculty Director of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University

19 November 2015

“Slow Violence, Environmental Activism, and the Arts”
Rob Nixon
Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University

Co-sponsors: Teale, Junior Faculty Forum of the Humanities Institute, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

4 February 2016

“Of Mice and Men: Emerging Infectious Disease in a Warmer, More Fragmented World”
Rick Ostfeld
Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York

3 March 2016

“Comedy, Economics, and Climate Change”
Yoram Bauman
Author, “standupeconomist,” and carbon tax activist, www.standupeconomist.com

21 April 2016

“Opportunities and Challenges of Shale Gas Production”
Mark Zoback
Benjamin M. Page Professor in Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University

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