GEM Critical Issues
International Seminar Series

2009-10 Academic Year Theme: Serving Society for Sustainability
Water trickles from a pool of the Menali River in India

The GEM Critical Issues International Seminar Series returns for its sixth season during the 2009-10 academic year.

All seminars are free and open to the public.

Every presentation will be videotaped and made available on this website. Information about prior season presentations, including links to videos of those presentations, is on the bottom of this page.

Location

Dreyfus University Center Theater on the UWSP Campus, Stevens Point (campus map)

Hosted by:

UW-Stevens Point Global Environmental Management Education Center (GEM)

Sponsored by:

GEM through grants from USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Susan Kilani

Water resource issues in Jordan: Facing limits in an arid environment
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 7 p.m., Dreyfus University Center Theater

David Selby

Founding Director, Sustainability Frontiers, an international alliance of global and sustainability academic educators, and Adjunct Professor, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, 7 p.m., Dreyfus University Center Theater

David Selby is co-editor of two new books, Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times, available now at a 20 percent discount from the publisher; and Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education (London: Earthscan).

Helena Cotler

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 7 p.m., Dreyfus University Center Theater

Helen Fox

Environmental Officer, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, South Africa
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7 p.m., Dreyfus University Center Theater

The inaugural season of the GEM Critical Issues International Seminar Series in 2004-2005 featured six international speakers who addressed global security from an environmental perspective. Click here to view or download a booklet, in PDF format, highlighting that series. Click here for links to videos of 2004-2005 speakers.

During the 2005-2006 academic year, five speakers from Native American and overseas indigenous cultures discussed sustainability from the perspective of indigenous cultures' traditional knowledge, spirituality, community and health. Every presentation was videotaped and made available on this website. View a booklet here highlighting the series in PDF format.

In 2006-2007, the GEM Critical Issues Series focused on building sustainable communities. A booklet highlighting the series is available here, and links to videos and flyers for each presentation are here.

The 2007-2008 series updated progress in reaching the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. You can view a PDF copy of the series program here.