17 – 19 March

Advancing a sustainable future: 
strategies for cross-disciplinary practice around the Indian Ocean

Challenging issues – limited resources – innovative solutions

WHEN: Wed 17 to Friday 19 March, 9 am to 5 pm

WHERE: University of Technology Sydney

Jones Street Building 10, Level 2,

Room 460 (17 March)

Room 240 (18 & 19 March)

Download the full program here [pdf]

Register your attendance here

THEMES:

Day 1: Strategies for Sustainable Futures: building, infrastructure and technologies for social justice
Day 2: Rethinking Environmental Histories
Day 3: Voices & Movements on environmental change

SPEAKERS include:

Ashok Lall on Innovations in low energy urban architecture; Hoysall Chanakya on Technologies for sustainability; Judith Carney and Ed Wilmsen on Africa and trans-oceanic ecological exchanges; Cynthia Mitchell on Transdisciplinary strategies for sustainability; Debal Singha Roy on movements for environmental justice; Stephanie Jones on Law, history and environmental sovereignty; Haripriya Rangan on ecologies on the move: Africa, India, Australia ….

and Heather Goodall on how to use memory and oral history for sustainability research; Shankar Sankaran and Chris Riedy on strategies for imagining the future; Sarath Mataraaachchi on post-tsunami planning in Sri Lanka; Ian Manock on disaster management in Bangladesh; Leena Thomas on developing build environment for climate change; Prasanthi Hagare on investigating culturally-appropriate strategies for water and waste management in Indigenous communities; Jade Herriman on global deliberative democracy on global warming; James Goodman on contesting climate policy; Bill Milne-Holme on sustainability research in Laos and Thailand; Juliet Willets and Naomi Carrad on sustainable infrastructure in rapid development situations; Dharma Hagare on planning sustainable urban water systems; Nick McClean on Protected areas and Environmental Justice, India & Australia; Jodi Frawley on  the politics of ‘invasive’ plant circulations; Thom van Dooren on the power of narratives in making extinctions visible.

For further information, please contact:

Heather Goodall (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UTS): Heather.Goodall@uts.edu.au
Prasanthi Hagare (Civil & Environmental Engineering, UTS): phagare@eng.uts.edu.au
Leena Thomas (School of Architecture, DAB, UTS): leena.thomas@uts.edu.au

School of Architecture, UTS :: Engineering & IT, UTS :: Arts & Social Sciences, UTS :: Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS ::  School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Monash.

24 February

Public Lecture

Amina Wadud
Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne

Islam and Gender Reform

6 for 6.30 PM
Room 4.11, UTS Building 2, Level 4 (enter via main tower entrance)
Free lecture

Please click here for the lecture abstract and biographical information on Amina Wadud.

24 November 2009

Annual Lecture: Gyanendra Pandey (Emory University, Atlanta, US)

The politics of difference: Reflections on the Dalit and African American struggles

6 for 6.30 PM
Room 411, UTS Building 2, Level 4
Free Lecture

Click here to read the lecture abstract.

26 November 2009

Postgraduate Workshop with Prof. Gyanendra Pandey (Emory University, Atlanta, US)

Download the Call for EOI’s here.

27 October 2009

ISLAND CONNECTIONS:
Networks, Labour & Cultures Across Oceans & Empires.
mauritius – reunion – australia – fiji – noumea

WHEN: 10 am – 5 pm
VENUE: Mary Ann House, 645 Harris Street, Ultimo (Conference Room, Level 3)
COST: Free event

Click here for more information and to read the workshop programme..

28/29 October 2009

Joint workshop with the China Research Centre:
Health and Borders in China, India and the Indian Ocean Region

WHEN: 10 am – 5 pm
VENUE: UTS Blackfriars Campus, Blackfriars Street, Bldg. CC05, Chippendale
COST: Free event

Please click here for more information on the workshop and for the two day programme.

Inquiries: Beatriz Carrillo, China Research Centre