CU-Boulder history Professor Patricia Limerick will continue the fall Chancellor聮s Community Lecture Series on Wednesday, Nov. 10, with a lecture on "Worlds of Possibility: Exploring Ethnicity in Environmental Thought."
Limerick, also co-founder of the Center of the American West, will explore the story of relationships to nature held by people who were the intellectual kin of the Thoreau-to-Abbey philosophers. She will question how a recognition of ethnic diversity can enrich and redeem environmental movements.
Limerick earned her doctorate in American Studies at Yale University and taught at Harvard University before joining the CU-Boulder faculty in 1984. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate students, and has recently been named president of the Western History Association.
This fall, the series highlights faculty from several CU-Boulder programs -- the Center of the American West, including its co-founders Limerick and Law Professor Charles Wilkinson, the Natural Resources Law Center and the Indian Law Clinic. All talks are at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel at The Academy, located at 970 Aurora Ave. in Boulder.
Each of the monthly lectures is free and open to the public. The program is co-sponsored by The Academy and the CU-Boulder Office of Community Relations on Wednesday evenings once a month from September through December. The program, launched in September of 1998, brings CU faculty into the community for talks ranging from arts and humanities to business and the sciences.
The fall series will conclude next month with "American Indian Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice" on Dec. 8. Sarah Krakoff, former director of the Indian Law Clinic, will explore whether tribal exercises of sovereignty on environmental matters are inherently questions of environmental justice for American Indians. Krakoff, an assistant professor of law, is participating in the Natural Resources Law Center聮s environmental justice program.
Parking is available along the streets that border The Academy: Lincoln, Cascade, Aurora and 10th. For more information, contact the CU-Boulder Office of Community Relations at 303-492-8384.