April 24-25, 2006
Richey Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union, The University of Iowa
Keynote Speakers: Bill McKibben, Stephanie Mills
The conference is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
This “concourse” will ask attendees to confront themselves, each other, and our society in general regarding how we have lost the “wild” in Iowa specifically and our society generally, and how we can bring it back into our imaginations, our values, our actions, and our land.
Much of the conference will be devoted to audience-centered discussion; our discussion leaders will come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. With keynotes sounded by our visiting writers, Bill McKibben and Stephanie Mills, we will ask attendees to examine ourselves, individually and culturally, focused especially on the ways that we live in the world. We desire that attendees leave with a sense of hope and a set of ideas and actions that they will be excited to implement as we seek to “rewild.” At the same time, we must confront our individual and our shared attitudes and actions that separate us from the wild and that harm or destroy it. Through a combination of confronting our failures and realizing our possibilities, we hope conference attendees will come away from the program ready and excited to embrace change.
An ongoing email discussion list beginning in January will help jump-start the conversation before the conference. All are invited to participate, but participation is not required to attend the confrence.
Partners include:
- The Iowa Project on Place Studies at The University of Iowa
- INHF’s Agrestal Fund
- Iowa Department of Natural Resources
- The Standing By Words Center
- The Ice Cube Press
For complete conference information, please visit the conference web site. Inquiries may be directed to thomas-k-dean@uiowa.edu.
Back to 2006 Agrestal Events.