Imaging Environment: Maps, Models, and Metaphors conference November 10, 2006

This jointly sponsored Stanford Humanities Center-Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford conference will bring together scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences to explore the different histories and techniques of representing the environment on a global scale, and discuss the rights and responsibilitiesindividual and collectivethat derive from this knowledge. In additon, this conference will reach beyond disciplinary specificity to interrogate the very ways we figure the natural world, and the consequences of these figurations for our actions in the global environment.

Conference speakers include: Lawrence Buell, Elinor Ostrom, Michael Pollan, Harriet Ritvo, and Candace Slater. Conference sessions all day Thursday (11/09)and all day Friday (11/10).

(Keynote features William Cronon at 7:00 p.m. on November 8 at Cubberley Auditorium.)

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