INVITE | FINAL Conversations on Water | Roundtable on Water Futures
Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water
Wits Water and WiSER invite you to our final event for the year
This will be a roundtable on water futures, deciphering through sustained interdisciplinary exchange multiple and plural ways of protecting clean waters, contesting poor governance of water with better ideas about how to preserve and deliver water to those that need it most, imagining possibilities for confronting and superceding water crises and for learning collectively about the meanings and histories that water carries across different communities and in changing moments.
In discussion on this panel will be:
Craig Sheridan (Wits Water), Joni Brenner (Artist), Nhlanhla Mnisi (Environmental Water Researcher) and Julia Taylor (Economist)
The panel will be chaired by Sarah Nuttall
Thursday, October 30,
WiSER Seminar Room,
1-2pm
Wits-based colleagues are encouraged to attend this as an in-person event.
A hybrid option is available to accommodate those participating nationally and internationally. Register here
Interdisciplinary conversations on Water is a monthly discussion series hosted by WiSER and Wits Water
Water impacts each of use every day. From showering first thing in the morning or grabbing a cup of coffee to get the day going through to last thing in the evening for brushing one’s teeth. Implicit to this way of life is the assumption that every moment a tap is touched, water is infinitely available. This assumption is, however, erroneous. Understanding why it is wrong needs interdisciplinary dialogues. The purpose of this series of discussions is for us to begin to communicate with each other. Social scientists, historians, psychologists, artists, literary studies scholars and writers, engineers and scientists all thinking about water together establishing a community of practice.
The series is convened by Professors Craig Sheridan and Sarah Nuttall.