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Introducing our New Hennebach Assistant Professor, Dr. Jessica Rolston:
Jessica Smith Rolston is the Hennebach Assistant Professor of Energy Policy in Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. Her ethnographic research in the American West and Peruvian Andes traces the commodity networks that surround mined materials and implicate a wide range of actors, from miners and corporate officials to ranchers and conservation activists. Within these networks, she focuses on questions of social justice, work, gender, and corporate social responsibility. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is currently finishing the book manuscript for Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (under contract with Rutgers University Press). She holds a PhD in anthropology and a certificate in women’s studies from the University of Michigan.
Please join us for a special lecture by Jessica Rolston:
"Mining for Morals: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Mining Industry"
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Marquez Hall Auditorium (MZ126)
3.30 - 5.00 PM
With commentary by Dr. Murray Hitzman
This talk draws on ethnographic research about controversial mining projects in the American West and Peruvian Andes to analyze the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining industry. Specifically, it examines the conditions under which mines, communities and employees forge workable social contracts, as well as the structural limitations of those agreements. The recording of this talk is now on the Mines' YouTube Channel:
On Saturday, September 15th, 2012
Hennebach sponsored the World Wide Views ON BIODIVERSITY - congratulations to Sandy Woodson, volunteers and participants!
More updates on the event, featured in the Oredigger http://www.scribd.com/doc/106826574/The-Oredigger-Issue-4-September-24-2012
Fall 2012 & Spring 2013 events:
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012 SC Ballroom C 12.00 - 1.00 PM Mastering Public Presentations In Collaboration with the Center for Professional Studies, the SmartGeo Program, and the Honors McBride Program Tim Miller, Communication Expert, Spoken Science Download event flyer   |
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 Marquez Hall Auditorium MZ126 4.00 - 5.00 PM
From two worlds to one: How we split the social and technical worlds of engineering... and why it matters In Collaboration with the Humanitarian Engineering Program, the McBride Honors Program, and Engineering Without Borders at CSM James Huff, Doctoral Candidate in the School of Engineering Education and Assistant Education Administrator for EPICS at Purdue University (also on academic leave from a faculty position at Harding University)Download event flyer |
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013 SC Ballroom B & C 5.00 - 7.00 PM The Arab Spring and Islamism: Stories from the Syrian Frontline Deborah Amos, Foreign Correspondent, National Public Radio (NPR) Download event flyer |
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 SC Ballroom B 4.00 - 5.00 PM Gold Fields in Mali: Exploring for gold during the collapse of a state Ben Teschner, Mines Alum BS, 2008 MS, 2011 Download event flyer |
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013 SC Ballroom B 4.00 - 5.00 PM Risky Overseas Investments: The Arab Gulf States and Land Acquisition in Africa and Southeast Asia Dr. Mary Ann Tetreault, Una Chapman Ox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs Emerita at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) Download event flyer |
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Monday, April 15th, 2013 SC Ballroom A 5.00 - 7.00 PM To the Ends of the Earth: raw materials, globalization and the problem of explanation |