USP Spring Symposium: Wicked Problems/Wicked Solutions

Wicked Problems/Wicked Solutions

Saturday, March 13, 9:10 am – 1:45 pm
Duke Zoom

9:10 am: Introductions

9:15 am:  Panel 1 Environment

9:15-9:25 am:    Brandie Quarles
“Plants, Climate Change, and a Leap of Faith”

9:25-10:10 am:  Keynote  Dr. Billy Pizer, Susan B. King Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
“A Fireside Chat with Billy Pizer on Climate Change and Environmental Policy”

10:10-10:20 am:  Gabriela Nagle Alveiro
“Planned Relocation: An Equitable Solution to a Wicked Problem or a Wicked Solution?”

10:20-10:30 am:  Anna Steltenkamp
“To be Only-Human or to be Human-And-More? How a Holistic ‘Self’ is Constituted of Kin-Centric Relations With(in) the Natural and Living World”

10:30 – 10:40 am  Break

10:40 am:  Panel 2 Justice

10:40-10:50 am  Katy Hansen
“Just Services”

10:50-11:00 am   Christian Bale
“Reigning in the Defense Budget: Dusting Off the President’s Constitutional Impoundment Power”

11:00-11:10 am      Nadia Bey
“Communicating Toward Health Justice”

11:10-11:55 am  Keynote  Dr. Diane Nelson, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
“Justice League Guatemala”

11:55 am-12:30 pm  Lunch Break

12:30-12:40 pm    Austin Wadle
“The Triumphs and Perils of Creating Queer Content and Community on TikTok”

12:40-12:50 pm    Matthew Slayton
“Shared Semantic Spaces and the Limits of Sensibility”

12:50-1:00 pm      Foxx Hart
“The Wicked Problem of Good Polling Data”

1:00-1:45 pm  Keynote  Dr. Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
“Persuasive Communication: Contextual Bases of Russian and American Misreading”

1:45 pm  Adjourn