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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis
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SUMMARY:Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a Resource in Crisis
DESCRIPTION:<p>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.<!--break--> 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 <a href="http://globalstudiesoutreach.harvard.edu/teaching-water-global-perspectives-resource-crisis-0" data-url="http://globalstudiesoutreach.harvard.edu/teaching-water-global-perspectives-resource-crisis-0">workshop main site</a>. </p><h4>Schedule</h4><p><em>Note: Tentative.  All sessions subject to change.</em></p><div>Monday, August 5: “Water as a Worldwide Resource” </div><div> </div><div>8:30-10:30        Welcome, Introductions, and Group Discussion</div><div>10:30-12:30      Keynote Address: “Water: Putting it in Perspective”</div><div>12:30-1:30        Lunch</div><div>1:30-3:00          Water and World Health</div><div>3:00-4:30          Developing a Curricula for the K-12 Classroom</div><div> </div><div>Tuesday, August 6: “Who Controls the Water?: Water security and development”</div><div> </div><div>8:30-9:00          Discussion of previous Night’s Reading</div><div>9:00-10:00        Framing the Day: “Who controls the water?”</div><div>10:00-11:30      Panel on Rivers in Asia and the Middle East</div><div>11:30-12:30      Somali Pirates</div><div>12:30-1:30        Lunch</div><div>1:30-2:30          The Nile Basin: A Look at Ethiopia’s Grand Dam Plan</div><div>2:30-3:30          Water and International Security in Central Asia</div><div>3:45-4:30          Preparation for Water Negotiation Simulation</div><div> </div><div>Wednesday, August 7: “Access to Water as a Human Right”</div><div> </div><div>8:30-9:00          Discussion of previous Night’s Reading</div><div>9:00-10:00        Framing the Day: “Who has access to water and what  are the consequences?”</div><div>10:00-11:00      Access to Safe Water in Ghana</div><div>11:15-12:15      TBD</div><div>12:15-1:15        Lunch</div><div>1:15-4:00          Water Negotiation Simulation</div><div> </div><div>Thursday, August 8: “Disasters and Climate Change: Thinking about water system-wide and globally”</div><div> </div><div>8:30-9:00          Discussion of previous Night’s Reading</div><div>9:00-10:00        Framing the Day and Speaking Broadly: Water Systems – Climate Change and Disasters</div><div>10:00-11:20     The Environmental Decimation of the Aral Sea and Lake Baikal in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period</div><div>11:30-12:30     Climate Change in Africa</div><div>12:15-1:15       Lunch</div><div>1:30-3:30         Water Disasters At Home and Abroad</div><div>3:30-4:30         Wrap-up/Evaluations</div><p> </p><p><strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:amudd@fas.harvard.edu">Anna Mudd</a><br><strong>Sponsors:</strong> 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.</p>
LOCATION:Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Harvard Campus
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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