Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; seating is first-come first-served
In a world of melting glaciers, rising seas, devastating floods, and extensive droughts, the role that climate change plays in exacerbating water overabundance and scarcity is readily apparent. This event will feature Barbara Rose Johnston, Hai Zhang, and Anne Rademacher presenting new research in a public discussion with Ashok Gurung, Georgina Drew, Joan Mencher, and others on our transforming relationships with water.
Barbara Rose Johnston is the senior research fellow for human rights and the environment at the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz, California and Michigan State adjunct Professor of Anthropology. Other professional appointments include reparations advisor to the World Commission on Dams, water and cultural diversity advisor to UNESCO, and sociocultural/biomedical advisor to the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims
Tribunal.
Anne Rademacher serves as assistant professor in programs of Environmental Studies and Metropolitan Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is also the Director of the Metropolitan Studies Program at NYU.
Hai Zhang was born in China in 1976. He has devoted himself entirely to exploring his concerns for the human condition by utilizing photography and his extensive experiences in architecture and planning. In 2009, Zhang was awarded the ‘Rafael Vinoly Architecture Research Fellowship’ that over the three subsequent years supported his intensive photographic inquiry about urban dwellers in two major Chinese metropolises, Shenzhen and Shanghai. The research combined his up-close contextual imaChina. The book compiled from the research has been published in New York in Nov 2011.
For more info: http://www.newschool.edu
For Hai Zheng’s work: http://hzhang.photoshelter.com