Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis

This multi-regional 4-day workshop, intended for junior and senior high school educators, will examine a variety of the most critical issues facing international waterways and the communities who rely on these bodies of water. Registration is filled.  Contact amudd@fas.harvard.edu to be placed on the waiting list.  See more information, including a list of selected speakers, at the workshop main site. 

Schedule

Note: Tentative.  All sessions subject to change.

Monday, August 5: “Water as a Worldwide Resource”  8:30-10:30        Welcome, Introductions, and Group Discussion10:30-12:30      Keynote Address: “Water: Putting it in Perspective”12:30-1:30        Lunch1:30-3:00          Water and World Health3:00-4:30          Developing a Curricula for the K-12 Classroom Tuesday, August 6: “Who Controls the Water?: Water security and development” 8:30-9:00          Discussion of previous Night’s Reading9:00-10:00        Framing the Day: “Who controls the water?”10:00-11:30      Panel on Rivers in Asia and the Middle East11:30-12:30      Somali Pirates12:30-1:30        Lunch1:30-2:30          The Nile Basin: A Look at Ethiopia’s Grand Dam Plan2:30-3:30          Water and International Security in Central Asia3:45-4:30          Preparation for Water Negotiation Simulation Wednesday, August 7: “Access to Water as a Human Right” 8:30-9:00          Discussion of previous Night’s Reading9:00-10:00        Framing the Day: “Who has access to water and what  are the consequences?”10:00-11:00      Access to Safe Water in Ghana11:15-12:15      TBD12:15-1:15        Lunch1:15-4:00          Water Negotiation Simulation Thursday, August 8: “Disasters and Climate Change: Thinking about water system-wide and globally” 8:30-9:00          Discussion of previous Night’s Reading9:00-10:00        Framing the Day and Speaking Broadly: Water Systems – Climate Change and Disasters10:00-11:20     The Environmental Decimation of the Aral Sea and Lake Baikal in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period11:30-12:30     Climate Change in Africa12:15-1:15       Lunch1:30-3:30         Water Disasters At Home and Abroad3:30-4:30         Wrap-up/Evaluations

 

Contact: Anna Mudd
Sponsors: The Asia Center, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Committee on African Studies, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Harvard Global Health Institute, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies; Harvard University.