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2008 Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture in Maine
Please join us for
Finding Beauty in a Broken World: An Ensemble for Earth
By Terry Tempest Williams
and Alison Hawthorne Deming
Friday, September 5, 2008
5:30 p.m. Lecture
7:00 p.m. Fundraising Reception
Portland Museum of Art
Portland, Maine
The Center’s annual Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture, entitled, “Finding Beauty in a Broken World: An Ensemble for Earth”, will be held in the Portland Museum of Art on September 5, 2008. Terry Tempest Williams and Alison Hawthorne Deming will speak to the roles of the artist and the literary arts in healing a broken world and celebrating Earth. These separate lectures will be linked by the participants’ connection to the Earth Charter, a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful future. A Fundraising Reception will follow in the Museum’s McLellan House Parlor. View Map
RSVP by Friday, August 29, 2008
For information, please call (239) 590-7166 or email cese@fgcu.edu |
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Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams is the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar at the University of Utah. Her books include Refuge and, most recently, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. She is the recipient of Lannan and Guggenheim fellowships in creative nonfiction. |
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
Alison Hawthorne Deming is a Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She is the author of several books, including The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence and Writing the Sacred into the Real. Her writing has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize.
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The Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education is a Type Two Research Institute of Florida Gulf Coast University. The Center is comprised of faculty, students and administrators from all Colleges.
The Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education works toward realizing the dream of a sustainable and peaceful future for Earth through scholarship, education, and action. The Center advances understanding and achievement of the goals of environmental and sustainability education through innovative educational research methods, emergent eco-pedagogues, and educational philosophy and practice based on ethics of care and sustainability. The Center seeks to elevate the environmental mission of Florida Gulf Coast University and serve the university community, the local community of the Western Everglades and Barrier Islands, and the wider community of scholars.
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