Tuesday, 21 Feb 2006
Mapping the Invisible Landscape
Panel: Debra Marquart (moderator), ISU Dept. of English;Thomas Rice, Department of Art, Kalamazoo College; Patrick Schnable, ISU Departments of Agronomy and Zoology & Genetics; Maya Socolovsky, ISU Department of English. Part of the Second Annual Wildness & Wilderness Symposium
Matters of Life and Death: "Harvesting" Animals
Panel: Stephen Pett, (moderator), ISU Dept. of English; Ron Andrews, Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources; Stacey Brown, Wheatsfield Grocery Store; Joe Cordray, ISU Meat Laboratory; Dan O'Brien, novelist/memoirist and buffalo rancher.
Justice Across Generations: Environmental Ethics
Panel: Clark Wolf, (moderator) Director of Bioethics Program, ISU Dept. of Philosophy; Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; A. Whitney Sanford, ISU Religious Studies Program. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness
Nokomis: Voices of Anishinabe Grandmothers - Documentary and Discussion
In this Emmy-nominated documentary, author/filmmaker, Sarah Penman, has collected narratives from three remarkable Ojibwe women from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. After the viewing of Nokomis, Penman will discuss her process and her other projects, including her recent book of oral narratives, Honor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.
Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - Al Hirsch
Al Hirsch is currently the Managing Director for the CTARCo International management consulting company, a leading provider of energy power management and market systems and services in North and South America and Europe. He began his career in avionics design and worldwide strategic satellite communications systems engineering and has managed joint ventures as well as large and small technology programs for both international and domestic government agencies and commercial businesses. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Can We Be Good Without God? - John E. Hare
John E. Hare is the Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University Divinity School.
Dog Road Woman - Allison Hedge Coke
Allison Hedge Coke is the author of two poetry collections, Off-Season City Pipe and Dog Road Woman, winner of the 1998 American Book Award, and a memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. She teaches in the English department and the MFA program at Northern Michigan University. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - The Bone People will perform jazz poetry, rhythm & blues.