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College of Arts and Architecture Sustainability Symposium
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Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series

October 6, 2020–November 9, 2021

The Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series is organized by Mihyun Kang, a research professor and director for sustainability in the College of Arts and Architecture, and Peter Buck, an academic program manager at the Sustainability Institute. The College of Arts and Architecture Sustainability Council Teaching and Learning Working Group will contribute to the Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series. The series will transform the culture of sustainability education and pedagogy, embedding it into the college’s teaching culture. A wide range of topics concerning sustainability, curricular planning, and engagement across the college’s academic units will be addressed through the series.

October 6, 2020
11:30 AM–1 PM
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Session 4: Sustainability Teaching Panel Discussion

Presenters:
Emily Burns, Graphic Design Faculty
Huiwon Lim, Graphic Design Faculty
Heather McCune Bruhn, Art History Faculty
Eric McKee, Music Faculty
Angela Rothrock, Visual Arts, Faculty
Lucy Rummler, Landscape Architecture Graduate Student

February 1, 2021
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
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Session 5: Sustainability and Environmental Justice: Integrating Environmental Justice into Teaching​

Presenter: Heather Plumridge Bedi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, Dickinson College

Learn about Dr. Bedi’s approach to integrating environmental justice into her teaching. Her research interests include examining how civil society and socio-environmental movements experience and adapt to natural resource and landscape modifications related to energy processes, climate change, industrialization, and agricultural transitions.

March 1, 2021
11:30 AM–1 PM
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Session 6: SoVA Studio for Sustainability and Social Action

Facilitator: Angela Rothrock, Ph.D., SoVA Undergraduate Advising Coordinator, and Assistant Professor

Learn about the Studio for Sustainability and Social Action (S3A) dedicated to sustainability and a philosophical and moral call to social action through artistic practice.

March 29, 2021
11:30 AM–1 PM
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Session 7: Sustainability Behind “A Marvelous Order”

Facilitator: Eric McKee, Ph.D., Professor of Music Theory
Presenters: Judd Greenstein, Composer
and Joshua Frankel, Director/Animator

Explore sustainability behind A Marvelous Order, a multimedia opera about the battle between Robert Moses, the Master Builder, and Jane Jacobs, the self-taught oracle of unparalleled urban insight, over the fate of New York City.

Part 1
April 5, 2021
11:30 AM–1 PM

Part 2
April 12, 2021
11:30 AM–1 PM

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Session 8: Paper from Invasives and Yard Waste

Facilitator: Heather McCune Bruhn, Ph.D., Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History

Discuss problems associated with invasive plants and their effect on the native ecosystem and some creative ways to eliminate these plants. Papermaking is one way to make use of these invasives and garden waste in general. In the case of edible invasive plants, it’s also possible to cook them! Some food made from invasive garlic mustard as a snack might be shared.

October 5, 2021
11:30 AM–1 PM
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Session 9: Sustainability Teaching Panel Discussion

Presenters: Sustainability Faculty Teaching Fellows

Learn about approaches to integrating sustainability into courses by this year’s cohort of sustainability teaching fellows.

November 9, 2021
11:30 AM–1 PM
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Session 10: Sustainability Teaching Panel Discussion

Presenters: Sustainability Faculty Teaching Fellows

Learn about approaches to integrating sustainability into courses by this year’s cohort of sustainability teaching fellows.

Sponsoring Units:
Office of Research, Creative Activity, and Graduate Studies
Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Arts and Design Research Incubator