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"INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS: THE IDEA OF NATURE" PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Now heading into its twelfth year, the goal of the The Idea of Nature lecture series is to promote interdisciplinary inquiry about the environment and to foster dialogue across the campus and community.

Videos of the lectures and the promotional materials can be streamed or downloaded from the links below.

These lectures are free, open to the public, and require no tickets. However, the events this year will be held virtually by Zoom.

Registration is required for the Zoom event, please send an email to ideaofnature@boisestate.edu, and a Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the lecture.

All lectures will begin at 6 PM MST, with the exception of the bonus lecture listed below.

SPRING 2024 SCHEDULE

1. Douglas Tallamy, T.A. Baker Professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware
   February 9, 2024 - Jordan Ballroom, Student Union Building
   (both in-person lecture and webinar)

   Tallamy has authored 97 research publications including Bringing Nature Home, The Nature of Oaks and Nature's Best Hope - A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Back Yard. Tallamy has calculated that if all private property owners in the US were just to halve the dimensions of their lawns, 20 million acres could be quickly restored to viable habitat, the equivalent of almost a quarter of the total US National Park system, which covrs more than 84 milliam acres.

2. James Edward Mills, Freelance Journalist and Mountain Guide
   March 28, 2024 - Jordan Ballroom, Student Union Building
   (both in-person lecture and webinar)

   Mills is a contributor to National Geographic Magazine, Outside, Rock & Ice, Alpinist, The Guardian, The New York Times, Sierra, and other publications. He is the author of the new book The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors which is dedicated to increasing access for underrepresented groups to America's wilderness areas and National Parks.

   He is the co-writer/co-producer of the documentary film "An American Ascent" which was about the first African-American expedition to climb North America's highest peak, Denali. Mills was named a Yosemite National Park Centennial Ambassador in 2016 in recognition of his work in sharing the important history and legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers and their efforts at the dawn of the National Park Service.

3. Stephanie Burt, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University
   April 18, 2024 - Simplot Ballroom, Student Union Building
   (both in-person lecture and webinar)

   Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor with nine published books, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

   The New York Times called Burt "one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation." The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Believer, and the Boston Review.

4. Earth Week Bonus Webinar
   Rev. Lydia Cook, Angelican Priest, Ottery St. Mary, England
   April 22, 2024 - Webinar ONLY, 12:00 Noon, MST

   Reverend Cook has spent the 27 years of her ordained life ministering in rural communities and is a passionate advocate for the "Eco-Church" movement. She is an Oxford graduate, a regular speaker on eco-theology and part of her work is to train ordinands and curates on rural ministry. Reverend Lydia is committed to encouraging churches live out their calling to protect the creation, both spiritually and practically, and she combines Biblical insight with grounded realism.

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