Each week a new topic is discussed, ranging from solar power to the energy in foods. No meal plan? No problem, as a limited number of meals are sponsered each week by Mathey College and the Princeton Environmental Institute. (full details, PDF)

Tsing is widely known for her path breaking book In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Princeton, 1993). She has created new ethnographic genres so as to write about the experience of global marginality in remotest Indonesia and she is renowned as well for her contrarian account of globalization (in her celebrated Friction: an Ethnography of Global Connection, Princeton, 2005). Currently working on margins of other kinds (indeed, the question of how margins are made, and what they mean, is her main question), she is exploring the scientific construction of nature, and its challenges to anthropology. Tsing’s breadth of vision and imagination has influenced generations of students – earning her a place in the current cannon in contemporary ethnography.

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Wesley L. Harris Scientific Society (WLHSS) is proud to host The Role of Science and Technology in African Development. The symposium will provide a scholarly forum to highlight important developments and achievements as well as address challenges facing Africa's development. One major goal of this symposium is to concentrate on practical solutions addressing the issues in three selected areas: energy, environment and health. For more information visit: princetonscienceforafrica.eventbrite.com or e-mail rndong@princeton.edu.

David Wilcove, a Princeton professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, will read from his book "No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations." more>>

IMAGINE is a sustainability conference focusing on current research in the realms of sustainable technology, policy, ethics and economics. By bringing together representatives from industry, media, academia and government, the conference seeks to catalyze innovation and encourage the exchange of ideas as we look towards the future. more >>

Sawyer, is a cultural and environmental anthropologist engaged with issues of oil politics and human rights in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. She follows the social life of oil through the indigenous communities that suffer the exploitation of their land’s resources, to the Ecuadorian state, to the multinational oil companies in the U.S. courts where the toxic effects of oil drilling and natural gas extraction by Texaco9 and Chevron have been litigated. Her book, Crude Chronicles (Duke, 2004) situates the cultural environment of the upper Amazon in this broad institutional nexus, rethinking anthropological categories (local, global, citizen, state – among other) as she goes.