Contemplating Nature: An Exploration of Representation of Landscape and the Environment
This project involves developing syllabi for two courses, an introduction to American Studies and an English Department senior seminar. It focuses on nature writers-not only literary authors, but natural and social scientists-who are also contemplatives: Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, Richard Nelson, Terry Tempest Williams, Linda Hogan and others. Themes explored in these texts include dwelling, home and universe, comparative traditions, science, travel, the lessons of history, embodiment, ecofeminism, green movements and environmental justice, and imaginative versions of landscape by the privileged juxtaposed to the lived experience of the disempowered.
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This Summer Institute aims to develop tools for teaching and researching environmental dilemmas with this broader sensibility in mind.
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A webinar with Paul Wapner, Associate Professor and Director, Global Environmental Politics Program, School of International Service, American University Wednesday, February 24, 2010 How can higher education best address global environmental challenges? How can we equip our students to engage in environmental work, and how can we undertake meaningful scholarship that can actually contribute to global environmental wellbeing? This webinar will explore these questions through the lens of Contemplative Environmental Studies. Recommended Reading: Paul Wapner, Living Through the End of...
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