- Tuesday, November 15, 2022
- 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
- Meeter Center Lecture Hall
From slum water provision to international water disputes, the Indian subcontinent has multiple, simultaneous water related crises that pose dangers ranging from individual level water scarcity and treatment to nuclear war.
From slum water provision to international water disputes, the Indian subcontinent has multiple, simultaneous water related crises that pose dangers ranging from individual level water scarcity and treatment to nuclear war. Looking broadly to the history, context, and culture of South Asia, the speaker will examine the water crisis facing India at a local, national, and international level. From here, he will make connections between these crises in India, and illustrate what we can and need to learn, as the global water supply constricts, from these crises and apply it to our own burgeoning water crises in the United States.
Professor Michael Dirksen is a post-doctoral fellow at Calvin through the de Vries Institute. Raised in Grand Rapids, he is a 2012 Hope College graduate. From there, his graduate work was done both at the American University in Washington, D.C. and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has taught at Trinity Christian College, North Park University, Elmhurst University, Hope College, and now Calvin University.
Sponsored by Asian Studies
