Fwd: Invitation to Bioregional Night

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

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>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:41:59 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Sarah M. Taylor" <6500smt at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>
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>To: lakinroe at silcom.com
>Subject: Invitation to Bioregional Night
>
>(Please distribute)
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>			* * BIOREGIONAL SERIES **
>
>			Tuesday, April 20th, 7PM
>			PLEASE RSVP OR SEE OUR WEB PAGE FOR DIRECTIONS
>			[ URL: http://ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu/~6500smc/REC ]
>
>The Religion, Ecology, and Culture Research Interest Group at UCSB is
>pleased to announce the first of what will be a series of discussions on
>bioregionalism. Faculty, students, and community members are invited to
>participate. 
>
>Our featured guest on April 20th will be Michael Vincent McGinnis, Acting
>Director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center at UCSB.  McGinnis is the
>editor of Bioregionalism (Routledge 1999) and has published a number of
>essays on environmental ethics, ecosystem management, biodiversity
>policy, restoration, and political ecology.  Since 1992, he has received
>grants from the NSF to study the place of values and science in watershed
>restoration.  He is currently completing two books that will be published
>next year:  Negotiating Ecology: The Politics of Watershed Management
>(Island Press) and Rewilding Imagination (University of Minnesota Press).
>
>In a forthcoming article in The Ecologist, McGinnis also addresses the
>role of the arts (in the form of dance, art, poetry, theater, and ritual)
>for transforming and "restoring" human ecological relationships.  He
>writes that "Rebuilding community depends on our artists" and argues that
>"To work with one's community to reinhabit the landscape and place is an
>act of restoration." 
>
>We are very excited to create a forum for this kind of discussion within
>the UCSB/Santa Barbara community and hope to see you there.  Please RSVP
>so that we can plan appropriately. 
>
>* RECRIG facilitates collaborative research and inquiry in the area of
>religion, ecology, and culture.  We operate as an active think tank.  As
>such, our meetings do not feature formal lectures or paper presentations
>but are geared instead toward group participation and collective
>problem-solving.
>
>RSVP:  6500smt at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
>
>***********************************
>Sarah McFarland Taylor
>Religious Studies
>University of California
>Santa Barbara, CA 93106 
>6500smt at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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