Speaker Series

2016–2017 Events

• The Humane Economy: Animal Rights, Seaworld, and the Future?

  February 13, 2017
  12:05–1:00 p.m.
  EDU 1111

  Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, will discuss how animal rights activists have negotiated animal wellbeing and social change in Sea World, the egg and chicken industry, animal testing and humane science, and beyond. More details >

• As the Arctic Thaws: New Challenges, Remaining Issues

  April 2017

  Building on the successful Arctic I Symposium and Arctic II Roundtable, this program will extend discussions of the state of Arctic governance and ecosystem-based management, looking toward the next major challenges facing environmental governance in the region.

• Rocky Flats: Causes of Action

  November 18, 2016
  1:00–5:00 p.m.
  Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
  
  

  This program will include presentations from the lead counsel in four landmark cases within the decades-long litigation that arose from the near meltdown and radioactive contamination at the covert Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production facility in Colorado. More event details >