No Silver Bullets: Unintended Consequences of Oil and Water Solutions

How have we developed technology and policy to manage oil and water resources through history? Historically, have we found what we thought was the "silver bullet" that would solve the problem, only to discover often unanticipated social, economical, and ecological costs? What "slick solutions" will we come up with next?
 
In this program of the Illinois Humanities Council's year-long "All Consuming" series we discuss the difficulty of finding easy solutions to oil and water problems through the examples of dams in India and the development of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
 
Panelists:

• Amita Baviskar, Ph.D. - Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
• Silvia Secchi, Ph.D.. - Assistant Professor, Energy Economics and Policy, Department of Agribusiness Economics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Kathleen Morrison, Ph.D. - Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago (moderator)

 
From 6 to 7 p.m., attendees are invited to view an exhibition in the 2nd floor Board Room at the Indo-American Heritage Museum featuring an exquisite pichai (story scroll of episodes from Krishna's life), a replica of Gandhi's spinning wheel and photographs of ritual activities, special celebrations and historic occasions.