How the humanities affect sustainability will be the focus of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Northern Arizona University from June 21 through July 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cExtending the Land Ethic: Current Humanities Voices and Sustainability\u201d will bring more than 25 college and university professors to the Flagstaff campus to study recent humanities disciplines that share a conceptual touchstone with environmentalist Aldo Leopold\u2019s \u201cLand Ethic\u201d published in 1949. Leopold\u2019s work defined a broader relationship between people and nature.<\/p>\n
Faculty for the four-week session include MacArthur Prize recipient Gary Paul Nabhan; Curt Meine, Leopold\u2019s primary biographer; famed Native American writer Linda Hogan; and noted climate philosopher Dale Jamieson. Topics include environmental history, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, green religion, food ethics, traditional ecological knowledge, climate justice and environmental ethics. Guest speakers and field trips to sites that raise questions about sustainable land and cultural practices round out the institute.<\/p>\n
NAU Philosophy Lecturer Matt Goodwin<\/strong> was selected to attend the institute from a national NEH applicant pool.<\/p>\n NAU\u2019s Philosophy in the Public Interest is working with the NEH to share information on a broader local level as well. The following free, public discussions with NEH scholars will be held at the Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road in Flagstaff:<\/p>\n \u201cRemembering The Whole Leopold: Finding Common Ground in Conservation\u201d \u201cGrowing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Agrarian Ethics in the Face of Climate Change\u201d \u201cClimate Ethics: Reason in Dark Times\u201d \u201cEarth Speaking\u201d \u201cExtending the Land Ethic\u201d is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH Summer Institute partners include the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Institute for Humanities Research and the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, as well as the College of Arts and Letters at Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n For more information contact Institute directors Joan McGregor joan.mcgregor@asu.edu<\/a> or Dan Shilling dan.shilling@asu.edu<\/a>.\u00a0For information about the PPI Museum of Northern Arizona events, call (928) 523-8339 or email nau.ppi@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n<\/strong>Curt Meine, Conservation Biologist, Environmental Historian, Writer
\n<\/em>7 p.m., Tuesday, June 21
\nMeine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian and writer. He serves as senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisc., and with the Chicago-based Center for Humans and Nature. He is a research associate with the International Crane Foundation, also located in Baraboo, and an associate adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. Meine received his bachelor’s\u00a0in English and History from DePaul University in Chicago and his master’s\u00a0and Ph.D. in land resources from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Gary Paul Nabhan, Internationally Celebrated Nature Writer, Food and Farming Activist
\n<\/em>7 p.m., Tuesday, June 28
\nNabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. He has been honored as a pioneer and creative force in the \u201clocal food movement\u201d and seed saving community by Utne Reader<\/em>, Mother Earth News<\/em>, New York Times<\/em>, Bioneers<\/em> and Time<\/em> magazine. As the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in sustainable food systems at the University of Arizona Southwest Center, Nabhan works with students, faculty and nonprofits to build more just, nutritious, sustainable and climate-resilient food sheds spanning the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated
\n<\/em>Professor of Law, Director of the Animal Studies Initiative, New York University
\n<\/em>7 p.m., Tuesday, July 5
\nJamieson is professor of environmental studies and philosophy, affiliated professor of law and director of the Animal Studies Initiative at New York University. He is also a distinguished visiting professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King\u2019s College, London, and an adjunct professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Formerly, Jamieson\u00a0was the Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, and professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he was the only faculty member to win both the dean\u2019s award for research in the social sciences and the chancellor\u2019s award for research in the humanities.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Linda Hogan, Internationally Recognized Author of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
\n<\/em>7 p.m., Tuesday, July 12
\nHogan is an internationally recognized author of poetry, fiction and essays. The former writer-in-residence for the Chickasaw Nation and professor emerita from University of Colorado, Hogan was inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame for her writing, which focuses on environmental issues, indigenous spiritual traditions and tribal histories.<\/p>\n