Environmental Affairs Symposium October 2, 2007

The theme of this year's annual Symposium is "Situating Environmental Crisis". This is event is free and open to the public. Lectures throughout these few days. Check the website for specifics.

From the website:

"Contemporary environmental discourse is fraught with crisis-talk—think toxic waste, species extinctions, and of course global warming. Many people rightly ask: what can be done, and where do we begin?

Yet the abstract, disconnected way we speak about environmental crises and their solutions often makes these questions unanswerable. What may help is to situate crisis in particular places so as to understand how the reality and perception of these impending disasters are shaped by specific biophysical, historical, political, cultural, and other processes. Perhaps it is only by situating crisis that we will better understand what can be done about it."

Official Website: http://www.lclark.edu/dept/envs/symposium.html