[GFD Event] Sustainability across Curriculum
Details
| Type | Lecture |
|---|---|
| Intended for | Enrolled students / International students / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff |
| Date(s) | June 25, 2024 12:00 — 13:00 |
| Location | Online |
| Venue | Zoom |
| Capacity | 100 people |
| Entrance Fee | No charge |
| Registration Method | Advance registration required
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| Registration Period | June 13, 2024 — June 25, 2024 |
| Contact | gfd-tokyo@adm.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Sustainability across Curriculum:
Integrating Hawai`i as an Indigenous Place into Sustainability Education
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 12:00-13:00
Online: Zoom
Language: English
Speaker: Aya H. Kimura
Abstract
Prompted by challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and socio-economic precarity, calls for ways to rethink higher education for a just and sustainable future are burgeoning. How can we infuse sustainability into university education? The concept of sustainability competencies is helpful to articulate and design students’ learning and can be integrated into courses in diverse disciplines. The example of Waiakeakua project led by indigenous native Hawaiians highlights the importance of incorporating diverse ways of knowing and being. The talk also discusses place-based learning and how the relationships with community groups and the bio-cultural milieu in which universities are situated play an important role in sustainability education.
Speaker Bio
Aya H. Kimura is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai`i-Mānoa and researches intersections among technoscience, sustainability, and social justice. Her books include Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima (Duke University Press: recipient of the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science), Hidden Hunger: Gender and Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell University Press: recipient of the Outstanding Scholarly Award from the Rural Sociological Society), Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge (Rutgers University Press, co-authored with A. Kinchy), and Food and Power: Visioning Food Democracy in Hawai‘i (University of Hawai`i Press, coeditor with K. Suryanata). Her forthcoming book (University of California Press) explores fermentation and microbiopolitics through the case of tsukemono or Japanese pickles.
