Dear GEP-Ed folks: Many of you know Bill Freudenberg, or are familiar with his work. There will be a symposium honoring him and his work this fall at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Details are below. Please direct question to Debra Davidson, whose contact information is also below.
Thanks, and apologies for cross-postings. Rich --------- Upcoming Symposium: Freudenfest: A Symposium to Honor William R. Freudenburg's Scholarly Contributions Please join us for an upcoming special symposium called Freudenfest, to be held November 6, 2010, at the University of California at Santa Barbara. There is a tremendous need to forge new directions in scholarship on environment and society that can ensure meaningful contributions to academia and civil society alike. There is perhaps no other contributor who has offered a larger trove of concepts and insights to direct such an endeavour than William R. Freudenburg, Dehlsen Professor of Environment and Society at UCSB. Over the past several decades, his work in the areas of risk, disaster, and natural resource development, and most critically the political forces that define such events, has offered multiple seeds that demand further development by others in our sub-discipline. Please join us for a day of collaborative discussion and celebration of Dr. Freudenburg's contributions to sociology, environmental studies, and society. Several presenters have already confirmed their ability to start the discussion off with their own insights, including Riley Dunlap, Eugene Rosa, Kathleen Tierney, Tom Heberlein, Lee Clarke, Rick Krannich, Bob Gramling, Dana Fisher, Debra Davidson and Rich Stedman. Planning is still in the works, and we will have a registration form and payment process set up soon. In the meantime, please let the organizing committee chair, Debra Davidson ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) know by email of your intention to participate. Fees have been kept nominal, to cover the costs of refreshments and a banquet dinner. The fee for students is $50, and $85 for the rest of us. We have blocks of hotel rooms reserved at a discounted rate at the Hotel Santa Barbara (https://www.reservations-page.com/C00000/H00196/be.ashx?pc=Freudenfest), and Holiday Inn Express Hotel Virginia (http://www.hotelvirginia.com/).
