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 Thursday,
January 23
Moreton
Lecture: "Conserving
Environmental Resources: The Fight Against Human Starvation and Disease"
11:30 a.m.
- Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215
Details: Robert Nevins, (601) 974-1412, nevinrb@millsaps.edu
David Pimentel
is Professor of Insect Ecology and Agricultural Sciences, Department of
Entomology, Section of Ecology and Systematics at Cornell University.
He served as consulting ecologist on the White House Staff 1969-70. He
has served as Chief of the US Public Health Service Tropical Research
Laboratory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has published on the topics of
ecological and economic aspects of pest control, biological control, genetic
engineering, sustainable agriculture, natural resource management and
environmental policy.
Thursday, March
6
Moreton Lecture: "Eco-Logic: A Perspective on Global Change and Sustainable
Development"
11:30 a.m. - Gertrude
C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215
Details:
Robert Nevins, (601) 974-1412, nevinrb@millsaps.edu
Dr. Jerald I.
Schnoor is Distinguished Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering
and Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research
at the University of Iowa. His research and publications cover a wide
range of environmental problems including acid precipitation, toxic chemical
fate and transport, surface and groundwater contaminant modeling, and
biochemistry of global change. With his students he has also pioneered
the use of vegetation for cleaning hazardous waste sites.
Thursday, March
27
Millsaps
Summers Lectures: Dr. Mark I. Wallace
11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cost: Free of charge (box lunches, $5)
Details: Kay Barksdale, (601) 974-1483 or barkskb@millsaps.edu
Dr. Mark I. Wallace, associate professor and co-chair of the department
of religion at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, will present this program
entitled "Earth God: A Christian Eco-Theology with Mississippi Roots."
Wallace's teaching and research interests focus on the intersections between
Christian theology, critical theory, environmental studies, and postmodernism.
He is the author of Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and
the Renewal of Creation and The Second Naïveté: Barth,
Ricoeur, and the New Yale Theology, and editor of Paul Ricoeur's Figuring
the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination. Wallace is also
an ordained Presbyterian minister and a member of the Constructive Theology
Workgroup and the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. The lecture will
be followed by an informal lunch at 12:45 p.m., a panel discussion featuring
clergy and laypersons from various denominations at 1:15, small group
discussions of the video Spirit & Nature at 2:30, and at 3:45 a plenary
conversation with Dr. Wallace.
Thursday, March
27
Music Department:
In Quiet Resting Places
5 p.m. - Gertrude
C. Ford Academic Complex recital hall
Details: Dr. Tim Coker, (601) 974-1422, cokertc@millsaps.edu
As part of the 2003 Summers Lecture event, the Millsaps
singers will perform Daniel Gawthrop's In Quiet Resting Places
for choir and orchestra. The work was commissioned by Millsaps Trustee
Robert Leggett and his wife Dee for the opening of the Blue Ridge Center
for Environmental Stewardship. The first performance took place on November
4, 2001, by the Master Chorale of Washington in the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C.
Friday, March
28
Millsaps Lecture: "Our Role in Building an Eco-Economy"
7:30 p.m. - Gertrude
C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215
Details: Dr. Darby Ray, (601) 974-1337, raydk@millsaps.edu
This event will feature Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute
in Washington, D.C. Lester Brown has been described as “one of the
world’s most influential thinkers” by the Washington Post.
He has authored or co-authored 48 books and is a MacArthur Fellow and
the recipient of the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize. Brown founded
the Worldwatch Institute and launched the influential State of the World
report, which has been published in over 30 languages. This event is co-sponsored
by the Millsaps Forum Series, the Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative,
E.A.R.T.H., and Mississippi 2020.
Tuesday, April
8
The Millsaps Nova Series: Dr. Jane Goodall
7:30 p.m. - Millsaps Christian Center Auditorium
Cost: $10
Details: Nicole Bradshaw,
(601) 974-1034, saadan@millsaps.edu
Dr. Jane Goodall, environmentalist and primate expert, devotes much of
her time to environmental activism. She promotes the work of the Jane
Goodall Institute, an organization with operations in 14 countries, including
Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, China, Japan, Taiwan, Germany,
Holland, Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom and Canada. Goodall has received
the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal
and Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize. She also received the third Gandhi/
King Award for Nonviolence, presented in 2001 at the United Nations by
the World Movement for Nonviolence. Her list of publications is extensive,
including two overviews of her work at Gombe, In the Shadow of Man
and Through a Window, as well as the spiritual autobiography Reason
for Hope and many children's books. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns
of Behavior is recognized as the definitive work on chimpanzees and
is the culmination of Goodall's scientific career.
Thursday, April
10
Moreton Lecture: "Sex and the Single Sucker: Responses of Fish Populations
to Effluents from Pulp and Paper Mills"
11:30 a.m. - Gertrude
C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215
Details: Robert Nevins, (601) 974-1412, nevinrb@millsaps.edu
K.
R. Munkittrick is Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem Health Assessment
at the University of New Brunswick. He also holds appointments at the
Universities of Maine, Waterloo and Guelph. His research focuses on the
responses of fish populations to environmental stressors including chemicals
released from pulp mills and mines.
Friday, April 25
Millsaps Lecture: Jay Nussbaum
12:30 p.m. - Gertrude
C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215
Details:
Robert Nevins, (601) 974-1412, nevinrb@millsaps.edu
Jay Nussbaum, eco-psychologist and author of Blue Road to Atlantis, will
present this lecture.
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