2017-2018 Teale Lecture Series
21 September 2017
“Extreme Conservation — A Planet without Glaciers”
Joel Berger
Cox Chair of Conservation Biology, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
View recorded Joel Berger lecture
9 October 2017 (Special Presentation)
“Science and Environment in the White House: What Obama Did. What Trump Is Doing. What We Can Do”
John Holdren
Senior Advisor to President Obama on Science and Technology Issues from 2009-2017; Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
View recorded John Holdren lecture
Note: This Special Presentation is at 4:00 PM in the Student Union Theater.
Dr. Holdren was brought to campus by the Center of Biological Risk, with support from the Teale Series.
19 October 2017
“Mining the Mountains: the Environmental Legacies of Coal Mining in Appalachia”
Emily Bernhardt
Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
View recorded Emily Bernhardt lecture (playback begin 17:42)
9 November 2017
“Thoreau as Activist: Writing to Save the World”
Jeffrey S. Cramer
Curator of Collections, Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute Library, Lincoln, Massachusetts
View recorded Jeffrey Cramer lecture
1 February 2018
“Giving the Future a Chance”
Elke Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
8 March 2018
“Rolling Back Environmental Regulation: Implications for Law, the Economy, and the Environment”
Cary Coglianese
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania
5 April 2018
“Multispecies Justice in the Age of Extraction and Extinction”
Subhankar Banerjee
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair of Land Arts of the American West and Professor, Art & Ecology, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico