University of Connecticut
Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment
Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 4:00pm (EST)
Andrea Ballestero
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Ethnography Studio,
University of Southern California
"Joining Forces With Water: Resonance and the Geologic Presence of People and Aquifers"
Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, October 12 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center on the UConn Storrs campus.
From Andrea’s website (https://andreaballestero.com/) :
Dr. Ballestero is an anthropologist interested in political and legal anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and social studies of finance and economics. She is a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at the University of Southern California. Her work looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America. Dr. Ballestero is particularly interested in spaces where the law, economics, and techno-science are so fused that they appear as one another
Her first book, A Future History of Water (Duke University Press, 2019) asks how the difference between a human right and a commodity is produced in regulatory and governance spaces that purport to be open to different forms of knowledge and promote flexibility and experimentation. Dr. Ballestero has worked with regulators, policy-makers, and NGOs in Costa Rica and Brazil where she trace how technolegal devices embody moral distinctions, pose questions about the foundations of liberal capitalist societies, and help people inhabit non-linear and generative futures.
Although the talk will be in-person, it is also available to watch (live) on WebEX. The live stream link is on the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Dr. Erin Kuprewicz at CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu