To assist readers in staying current on the many voices weighing on in this topic here on campus…

Last Thursday there was an event that happened here on campus among some Yale economists. You can read about it here.

Also, coming up on Thursday the 20th, The William F. Buckley Program is putting on a lecture by Prof. Charles Hill on the subject of OWS at 4:00 pm at 280 WHS. The William F. Buckley Program’s mission is to provide a “home for conservative thought” and “promote intellectual diversity” at Yale. It seems like this would be a great chance to hear additional perspectives on this topic.

 

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Austin Lord is a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, focusing in Political Ecology and Environmental Anthropology with an area concentration in Himalayan Studies. His ongoing research concerns processes of social and spatial change in areas affected by hydropower development in Nepal, with a particular focus on changing livelihoods and shifting patterns of migration and mobility. Austin spent over six months conducting fieldwork within Nepal during 2012 and 2013, focusing specifically on the upper watersheds of the Trishuli and Tamakoshi rivers, and he plans to return to Nepal in 2014-2015 to continue and expand this work. Prior to attending Yale, Austin studied Hydrology at Portland State University and received an A.B. in Economics and Studio Art from Dartmouth College. A broader collection of his photographic work (from Nepal and elsewhere) can be found at www.austinlord.com.