This Week in Themester

BRANIGIN LECTURE: Sumak Kawsay (Good Living) or Sustainable Development? Refounding the State and the Economy in the New Constitutionalism of Latin America (Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra)

KONOPINSKI LECTURE: Science, Society and Sustainability (Nobel Laureate Sir Harry Kroto, Florida State University)

COLL-T 200 LECTURE: Sustainable Fashion is an Oxymoron (Mary Embry, IU Department of Apparel Merchandising)

PATTEN FOUNDATION LECTURE: Writer and poet Wendell Berry reads from his work

WORKSHOP: Tending a Difficult Hope, workhop on DIY cookers (smoker and solar oven)

PUBLIC LECTURE: The Challenge and Opportunity of U.S. Wind Development (Matt Hendrickson, Horizon Wind Energy)

FILM SCREENING: Meteor Man

PANEL DISCUSSION: Wes Jackson, of The Land Institute, in conversation with Wendell Berry. Moderated by Scott Russell Sanders

FILM SCREENING:   Food, Inc. (2008, 94 min)

WORKSHOP: Creative Workshop on Arts and Environmental Justice. Led by Tisa Bryant, California Institute of the Arts, author of Unexplained Presences

COLL-T 200 LECTURE: Wendell Berry

PATTEN FOUNDATION LECTURE: Writer and poet Wendell Berry reads from his work

PUBLIC READING: Chris Cokinos, Collins alumnus and the Whiting Award- winning author, The Fallen Sky and Hope is the Thing with Feathers

PUBLIC LECTURE: Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective (Timothy Moran, SUNY-Stony Brook)

PERFORMANCE: Hymnody of Earth with Wendell Berry and the Bloomington Chamber Singers $

COLLABORATIVE ART PROJECT: Dreams for a Sustainable Future

EXHIBITION: Resource Wars in the American Arctic: Photographs by Subhankar Banerjee

EXHIBITION: Tending a Difficult Hope

EXHIBITION: Exhibition: African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture

Sustainability-themed  tours at the IU Art Museum.  Scheduled in advance by contacting the IUAM Tour coordinator  (855-7719 or prahn@indiana.edu).