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Crude Awakening: Sunday, March 13, 2005 "Like oil and water ": a useful metaphor for opposites that are unable to share the same space, but also meaningful also in the developing world, where these two substances often tell very different but interrelated stories. The challenges of writing about the politics and human cost of the search for oil and water in the third world are the subject of this special, one-day symposium organized with the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. Crude Awakening will be divided into two afternoon sessions of discussion and debate, the first running from 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm, and the second from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. The program is free and open to the public. Crude Awakening Participants International lawyer and legal scholar Joseph Dellapenna serves on the faculty of the Villnova University School of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert in water rights. He has written extensively on the environmental impact of conflict on Iraq's Marsh Arabs and the middle east in general, international water rights issues, and natural resources law. Professor Dellapenna received his J.D. cum laude from the Detroit College of Law, LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the National Law Center, George Washington University and an LL.M. in Environmental Law from Columbia University School of Law. Journalist William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. Mr. Finnegan is the author of four books: Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country ; A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique ; Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters ; and Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid. His work has won many awards, including the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College (2002), a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club (2000), and the Sidney Hillman Award for Magazine Reporting (1998). UW-LaCrosse professor of Anthropology Al Gedicks is the author of Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations . Gedicks is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, and a longtime activist in environmental and Native solidarity movements in the upper Midwest. He is Executive Secretary of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council and Director of the Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy. His latest video,"Keepers of the Water," is about the Indian-environmental alliance against Exxon's proposed Crandon mine in Wisconsin. Based in Toronto, Ken Wiwa is the son of acclaimed playwright and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. His first book, In the Shadow of a Saint, was published in the UK, Holland, US and Canada to critical acclaim. As a broadcaster, Ken Wiwa has worked for the BBC and on documentaries for Channel 4 and for CBC. Wiwa has spoken on behalf of his Ogoni people at international conferences, schools and Universities around the world and to the world's media. He has lobbied governments at the highest level and is a commentator on Nigerian affairs, appearing on and in the world's major news media. He continues to speak on behalf of his people and has taken on his father's beliefs, championing the claims and rights of his people in the debate about the effects of globalisation on the nation state in Africa, on cultural diversity, ethnic identity and the environment.
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