March 7, 2003|Volume 31, Number 21|Two-Week Issue

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Acclaimed scholar will discuss environmental history in lecture

William Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will visit the campus on Monday, March 24.

Cronon will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. At 7 p.m. he will deliver a lecture on "The Portage: Meditations on Time, Space and Memory in the Making of an American Place," in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.

Cronon, who earned a M.A. in 1979, a M.Phil in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1990 from Yale, will discuss the role of the history and geography in shaping people's sense of place and will use examples from his current research on the environmental history of Portage, Wisconsin.

An award-winning author and editor of many books on the environment, Cronon's 1991 work "Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West," which examined Chicago's relationship to its rural hinterland during the second half of the 19th century, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in history. "Nature's Metropolis" also won the 1992 Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history published during the previous year.

Formerly a member of the history department at Yale, Cronon has received teaching awards both at Yale and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served on the governing council of The Wilderness Society since 1995.

Jewish environmental ethics topic of bioethics seminar

Moses Stambler, professor of public health at Southern Connecticut University, will speak on campus on Wednesday, March 19.

Stambler will discuss "Reconceptualizing the Message of the Jewish Experience: Including Environmental Ethics as a Critical Component" at a Bioethics and Public Policy seminar at noon in the lower level conference room at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. He will then deliver a 7 p.m. lecture in the Joseph Slifka Center. Both lectures are free and open to the public. For information and reservations, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

Stambler's research interests include medical ethics and public health, and he is the author of numerous articles on both topics. Stambler is also the author of a book on health and society and an edited volume of readings on education.

'Technological Wild West'

Author Rebecca Solnit will deliver a talk on campus on Wednesday, March 26.

Solnit will speak on "Ghost Dances and Other Technologies: Writing Across the Fields" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 101 in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.

Solnit's talk will focus on her new book "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West," which is a study of the transformation of time and space in the 19th century by railroads, telegraphy, photography and other innovations that contributed to the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life.

Solnit, who has been described as "one of the most ... consistently (jaw-droppingly) fascinating writers of the current generation," is the author of numerous books. Her 1992 book "As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award.

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