Relevant Event Info: A Cultural Conversation: Aldo Leopold, the Southwest, and the Evolution of a Land Ethic for the Future

Time: February 13, 2008 at 8am to February 14, 2008 at 6pm
Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center
City/Town: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Website or Map: http://www.aldoleopold.org/...
Event Type: Opening
Organized By: The Aldo Leopold Foundation

Event Details:

As the opening event in the Aldo Leopold Centennial Celebration 2009, this “cultural conversation” is intended to foster creative discussion about the Southwestern roots of Leopold’s land ethic, the roots of an environmental ethic in Hispanic and Native American traditions, and the historic and potential connections among them. The event is open to the public and welcomes participants from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds and perspectives.

The program will include keynote speaker Gary Paul Nabhan, a Lebanese-American scholar exploring the challenge of ethics in a time of global change, a look at the roots of a land ethic in the Southwest from Native American, Hispanic, and Leopold perspectives, and a series of four panel discussions on the following topics, each with panelists from varied cultural traditions and viewpoints.

The event is co-sponsored by the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Additional funding is provided by the New Mexico Humanities Council through the We the People initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Humans and Nature, the University of New Mexico, and the U.S. Forest Service.