Winona LaDuke Speaks on Biocultural Diversity, Language, and Environmental Endangerment
Date: 03/29/2012
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education
Cost: Free
Description:
Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist, environmentalist, and writer. K. David Harrison is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Swarthmore University and author of The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World’s Most Endangered Languages. Linguist, anthropologist, and ethnobiologist Luisa Maffi is cofounder and director of Terralingua, an international non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by a group of committed individuals from different backgrounds who shared a fundamental set of beliefs in biocultural diversity. Panel will be chaired by Mary Hermes, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota.
Part of the University Symposium on Abundance & Scarcity.
Contact:
- Name: Institute for Advanced Study
- E-mail: ias@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-626-5054
- Sponsored by: Institute for Advanced Study
Parking:
Parking is available at the Fourth Street ramp and in the Church Street garage. Reciprocal contract parking is also available for those with contracts on the west bank or on the Saint Paul campus.
More information: http://www.ias.umn.edu/thursdayscals12.php
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