February 7, 2007
Follow-up from Andy Lakoff Talk at UCSF 2/7/07
Fantastic talk by Andy Lakoff this afternoon at UCSF. Very clear presentation of the argument made by Andy Lakoff and Steven Collier in their working paper “Vital Systems Security.”
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Follow-up: Pedagogy Meeting of 2/7/07
Kevin, Mary and Paul met on Wednesday afternoon as part of the pedagogy cluster. On the metaphorical table was Kevin’s draft syllabus for Anthropology 3AC: Introduction to American Global Anthropology, but the larger issue at hand was to try to think through the pedagogical issues involved in teaching the “anthropology of the contemporary”. here is a short recap:
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The As on Climate Change
As an indication of the changing salience of global warming discourses, Matier and Ross, columnists for the SF Chronicle, on February 5 ran an opinion wondering aloud if the used-to-be-Oakland A’s new stadium in Fremont would be swamped by rising sea levels over the next century. Of course, no one expects a stadium to last anywhere near that long, and the A’s response to a query, as reported in that column, was nonchalant. But I take it as something of a bell-weather that climate change is now capable of raising questions within popular urban planning conversations and in sports circles.
On the same day I received a preliminary bulletin for this year’s international hydropower conference. While having climate change implications stemming from decomposition of biomass in reservoirs, hydropower is nonetheless a non-carbon based energy source. Yet the irony is that no panels at the conference will address energy policy and climate change.
Sports fans stay tuned.