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Join us for our first Lunch & Learn event of 2017, featuring talks by graduate students in Environmental Science & Management and Religious Studies. Enjoy free lunch while learning about cool research!
Join us for our first Lunch & Learn event of 2017, featuring talks by graduate students in Environmental Science & Management and Religious Studies. Lunch & Learn events are co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the Library, and you'll enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.
Lunch & Learn
This Edition: Fish and Faith
Friday, âJanuary 20
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Library, Room 1312
Lunch will be provided
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"Tourism and Fisheries in the Colombian Pacific"
Karly Marie Miller
Graduate Student in Environmental Science & Management
In rural coastal ecosystems, small-scale fisheries (SSF) are an important link between humans and the environment, providing livelihoods to over 200 million people and generating 50% of seafood for human consumption. SSFs can also have a significant impact on the environment and are disproportionately concentrated in developing countries where their importance to coastal communities is amplified by poverty. Development, especially tourism, is often looked to as a sustainable way to alleviate pressure on the resource and reduce poverty. However, the actual social and environmental outcomes of development can vary greatly, highlighting the need to better understand both coastal socio-ecological interactions and how they are affected by development transitions. In this talk, Karly will present preliminary findings on the relationship between tourism and fishing in 8 communities of the Colombian Pacific.
"Clash of Temporalizations: Chinese Religiosities in the Face of the Western Clock"
âJulia McClenon
Graduate Student in Religious Studies
Our lives are shaped by the ways in which we think about time - often we believe we are "spending" it, "wasting" it, or "using" it. Religions provide cosmological worldviews through which our conceptions of temporality are shaped. Drawing from ethnographies as well as canonical texts and their analyses, Julia will highlight some of the peculiar qualities of Daoist and Chinese folk-religious temporal schemes and how practitioners were historically urged to carry out parts of their lives in accordance with them. She will also elucidate how the dominant temporal model of the modern West - what Benedict Anderson has called linear, empty, homogenous time - conflicts with and highlights these Chinese religious temporal qualities and point to other ways in which we might consider time's qualities.
This event will be moderated byâ âDavid Hwang, Graduate Student in Materials and co-organizer of Lunch & Learn events.
Interested in being a presenter at an upcoming Lunch & Learn? Click here to find out more! If you have any questions about this event or Lunch & Learn in general, please email Shawn Warner-Garcia.