Ecological Conversations Public Lecture Series, 2001-2002 Thursday Evenings, 7:00 p.m. Knight Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon 1501 Kincaid Street This lecture series is free and open to the public. All lectures are video recorded, and will be available for borrowing through the Knight Library, and for purchasing via CSWS. For more information, call (541) 346-5399. October 25, 2001 Healers in Contemporary Third World Economic Realities Imelda Bacudo is an activist and environmental economist working for several NGO’s in the Philippines. She is currently researching the contemporary role of a pre-colonial, matriarchal religious sect inhabiting the sacred site of Mt. Banahaw. November 8, 2001 Recovering Sacred Ground Veronica Brady is an activist, Roman Catholic Nun, and a senior research fellow in English Literature at the University of Western Australia. Active in the reconciliation movement, she is currently exploring recovery of the sense of sacred in western cultures. February 7, 2002 Finding the Sacred in Ecofeminist Science Fiction Edrie Sobstyl is an assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, who is currently researching the ways in which science and the sacred are entwined and reconciled in ecofeminist science fictions. February 21, 2002 Mokakssini: A Blackfoot Theory of Knowledge Nimachia Hernandez is an assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is actively interviewing Blackfoot elders about their creation stories, views of nature, and oral traditions. April 18, 2002 The Genetic Monastery: Green Nuns, Seed Sanctuaries, and the Crusade Against Biotech Colonization Sarah Taylor is an assistant Professor of Religion at Northwestern University who is currently documenting and analyzing the growing movement of environmentally activist nuns in North America. The lecture series is sponsored by the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society, as part of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Program - Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science, and the Sacred. The previous years’ lectures are available on video tape and may be checked out of the media center at the Knight Library on the University of Oregon campus, or purchased from the Center for the Study of Women in Society for $18 (includes shipping). To order, please call (541)346-5015 or write to CSWS, 1201 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1201. Joni Seager (May 16, 2001) Blaming Women: Population Control for the "Greater Green Good" Giovanna Di Chiro (April 18, 2001) Placemaking and Environmental Justice Politics: Contesting Epistemologies of Purity and Pollution Anna Carr (March 21, 2001) The Laymen are Revolting: Environmental Stewardship, Trust and Post- Kuhnian Institutional Science Teresa Flores Bedregal (November 8, 2000) Gender and Ethnicity in Boliva Sanja Saftic (October 18, 2000) What do bacteria talk about? Community Evolution Under the Microscope Kamala Platt (June 29, 2000) Latinas en los valles redressing environmental racism from the Willamette River Valley, SanFernando, Ohio, Rio Grande/Bravo . . . "Todos Somos Esperanza" (We are the hope) Saskia van Oosterhout (June 7, 2000) A Tree Grows Where It Wants To: Spiritual Connection to Land in Rural Zimbabwe Ohad Ezrahi (May 31, 200) New Kabalistic Perspectives on the Myth of Lilith Brinda Rao (May 3, 2000) Remapping the Feminine Body: Vedic and Folkloric Conceptions of Divinity Cate Sandilands (March 13, 2000) Raising Your Hand in the Council of All Beings: Ecofeminism and Citizenship