Forum looks at landscapes through a diverse lens
What: "Landscape Health: Diverse Knowledge"
When: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012
Where: St. Paul Student Center, 2017 Buford Ave., St. Paul
Contacts:
Becky Beyers, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, bbeyers@umn.edu, (612) 626-5754
Matt Hodson, University News Service, mjhodson@umn.edu, (612) 625-0552
A symposium this Thursday at the University of Minnesota will explore landscape health and healthy relationships to land, as seen from the knowledge frameworks of older, traditional cultures in Minnesota.
The symposium, "Landscape Health: Diverse Knowledge Traditions," will include a keynote presentation by Dudley Edmondson, facilitated panel conversations and small group discussions on the topics of indigenous environmental knowledge and community-based African knowledge systems. The event is part of the college's and university's celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act that created land-grant universities in the United States.
“Landscape Health: Diverse Knowledge Traditions” will be from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18 at the St. Paul Student Center. The symposium is free and open to anyone, but participants are asked to register. The Solution-Driven Science symposia are sponsored by the University of Minnesota's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.