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Citizenship and The Environment:
Past Events

Dialogue on Environmental Citizenship

May 11, 2006

Great Northern Way Campus
555 Great Northern Way, Vancouver
8:30am-6:00pm

Presented by the Environmental Citizenship Working Group & the Summer Institute in Environmental Education at SFU.

Speakers:

Jeanette Armstrong - Director of the En'owkin Centre. Jeannette is from the Okanagan Nation, a well-known author and the recipient of the Buffet Award for her work in conservation education.

Chet Bowers - wrote his first book on the connections between education, cultural ways of knowing, and the ecological crisis in 1974. Since then he has written over 90 articles and 16 books that examine how language reproduces pre-ecological ways of thinking, the connections between emancipatory and transformative ways of thinking and the globalization of the West's industrial culture.

Lecture: Michel Serres—The Idea of The Natural Contract

May 4, 2006

Segal Centre, Harbour Centre
SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street

Lecture and Discussion 4:30–6:30pm
Reception 6:30–8:30pm

The Enviromental Citizenship group hosts a seminar exploring the work of the French philosopher and mathematician Michel Serres. Mr. Serres will present a paper on his book The Natural Contract and a panel will offer responses.