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Colloquium and Seminars

Beginning in Fall, 2005, ESP initiated a regular seminar series in order to enhance the interdisciplinary learning and teaching process that characterizes the department. Our Fall 2005 seminars included:

October 11
Forestalling Catastrophic Climate Change:  Our Generation's Task  Willet
Kempton, Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies, and Senior Policy Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware

October 18
Population and Development in Siberia and Northern Russia
Timothy Heleniak, Faculty Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Maryland

October 25
Bridging Human and Environmental Studies in the North: A Vision for International Polar Year 2007-2008
Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution

November 15
The Search for a Past. The Prehistory of the Indigenous Saami in Northern Coastal Sweden
Noel Broadbent, Smithsonian Institution

November 29
Pipelines in Siberia: Debating Conservation, Development, and Heritage
Kathy Metzo, UNC-Charlotte & Ellen Bielawski, UAlberta

November 29
Diamonds on Dene Land: A Canadian Story
Ellen Bielawski, University of Alberta, Edmonton