Friday, January 30, 2009

Viterbo University Hosting Sustainability Symposium

The Viterbo University School of Letters and Sciences HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM 2009 has a sustainability theme this year. The Good Earth: Understanding Our Relationship with Nature will be running from February 2–4, 2009 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. All events are free and open to the public.

Keynote speaker Curt Meine, Ph.D., will present “Leopold’s Land Ethic in an Age of Consequences” at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre. Meine is the director of the Center for Humans and Nature in Baraboo.

There will also be a free soup luncheon held Feb. 3-4 in the Reinhart Center Board Room on the Viterbo University campus.

You can find out more about the symposium and a schedule of events at: http://www.viterbo.edu/GoodEarth.aspx.