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Conversations on the Land: Indigenous and Scientific Principles for Sustainable Communities

  • Dates: Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, 2008
  • Location: Marshall Hall, 110 Moon Library & 217 Bray Hall (as noted), SUNY-ESF
  • Maps

Friday, November 7, 2008

9:00 am Registration and Light Refreshments - 1st Floor Lobby, Marshall Hall
9:30 am Thanksgiving Address, Jesse Jacobs - Marshall Auditorium
9:45 am Welcome, Dr. Bruce Bongarten, Provost
10:00 am

“Restoration and Reciprocity: finding common ground between indigenous and

                            scientific knowledge”, Dr. Robin Kimmerer
10:45 am

“Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Sustainable Communities”

                              Dr. Dan Longboat
11:30 am

Fostering Sustainability on the Principles of TEK and SEK

12:15 pm LUNCH - Alumni Lounge, Marshall Hall
1:15 pm

Invited Papers: Alumni Lounge, Marshall Hall

1:15 pm

  “Religion’s Role ” Dr. Christopher Vecsey, Colgate University

1:45 pm

“Challenges to teaching stream restoration and environmental ethics in the Native and Western Ways” Dr. Donald Grinde, SUNY Buffalo

2:15 pm  

"Pluralism in Ways of Knowing: A Strategy for Survival", Dr. Karim-Aly Kassam, Cornell University

2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm  Oren Lyons,  Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation
4:00 pm Workshops
 

 

  • Making TEK visible on the land (E. Carter, S. Moran, moderators) - 110 Moon Library

 

  • Defining principles of Sustainability (Jack Manno, moderator) - 217 Bray Hall
  • The Thanksgiving Address, with Freida Jacques, Onondaga Nation - 408 Baker Hall
5:00 - 6:00 pm Poster session and Reception - Alumni Lounge, Marshall Hall
6:00 - 8:00 pm

Dinner (if you have pre-registered) Alumni Lounge, Marshall Hall

8:00 pm Film Screening "Homeland" in Marshall Auditorium

Saturday, November 8, 2008

8:30 am Registration and Light Refreshments - 1st Floor Lobby, Marshall Hall
9:00 am

The Menominee Model of Sustainability, Dr. Holly Youngbear-Tibbetts, College of Menominee Nation

- Marshall Auditorium

9:45 am

The Haudenosaunee Model of Environmental Sustainability, Neil Patterson. SUNY ESF

10:45 am

 Developing relationships for knowledge sharing in Mayan communities in Mesoamerica", Dr. Stewart Diemont, SUNY ESF

11:15 am

Panel: Indigenous Models of Sustainability o Philosophy and Practice (N. Patterson, moderator)

12:15 pm LUNCH - Alumni Lounge, Marshall Hall
1:30 - 3:00 pm Workshops
 

 

  • Sharing strategies for bringing TEK into the classroom (Kimmerer moderator) - 110 Moon Library

 

  • Biocultural restoration for sustainable communities - 217 Bray Hall
  • Workshop, Bob Stevenson, Environmental Educator, Director, Thompson Island Youth Camp from the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Workshop - 408 Baker Hall
3:00-3:15 pm P.M. Break
3:45 pm Closing Session, Thanksgiving Address

This program is sponsored by a SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines grant, ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Syracuse University, SUNY Native American Western Consortium and the Central New York Native American Consortium, SUNY Cortland, Lemoyne College, Syracuse CoE: Excellence in Environmental & Energy Systems Innovations


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