University of Connecticut
Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment – Public Online Event
Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 4:00pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Jane O’Sullivan
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia and Co-convener of the Overpopulation Project
“Ending Population Growth: A Race Against Ecological Limits”
Please join us for the second virtual Teale lecture of the Fall 2021 semester, to be streamed live on Thursday, October 21 at 4:00pm EST.
Dr. O’Sullivan is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia. She describes herself as a cross-disciplinary researcher with interests in food security, crop science, population growth, and sustainability. In addition, she is an activist and Co-convener of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA, https://population.org.au/), a non-profit organization that seeks to protect the environment and quality of life by ending population growth.
Dr. O’Sullivan is widely regarded as a leader in the field of population growth and its impacts on the environment, society, and the economy. Her work focuses on population change, its historical relationship to policies, programs and economic change, its treatment in economic theory and modelling, and its connections with resource scarcity, resource management, climate change, food and water security and biodiversity.
This WebEx event is open to the public and viewers may submit questions via chat during the live program.
For a link to the live program on 21 October, please visit the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Dr. Erin Kuprewicz at CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu