ELL: Symposium

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From: Matthew McDaniel <akha at loxinfo.co.th>
Organization: The Akha Heritage Foundation
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Dear Friends:

Please Note the following announcement:

> The film "The Akha Way" will be showing at the following video
> screening:

>  Nature and Culture: Preserving the Diversity of Life
>
> Sunday, April 18, 1999. At the Field Museum of Natural History,
> Chicago, Montgomery Ward Hall, 1-5 pm. Free with Museum admission.
>
> A series of videos on efforts by indigenous peoples from all over the
> world to preserve their
> cultures and the local environments. Organizers: Terralingua & Virtual

>
> Learn.
>
> Program:
>
> 1. Pathways & Highways Over the Fields (Finland, Sami) 28 min
> 2. A Thousand Years of Ceremony (USA, Wintu) 37 min
> 3. To The Roots: A Maya Reunion (Mexico/Guatemala, Maya) 28 min
> 4. The Akha Way (Thailand, Akha) 30 min
> 5. Stolen Waters (USA, Hawaiians) 27 min
> 6. Southern Kalahari Bushmen Cultural Audit and Reconstruction
>     (South Africa, Kalahari Bushmen) 14 min
> 7. Voices From the Talking Stick (Canada, Haida) 20 min
>
>
>
> ***************
> SYMPOSIUM
> "Language, Culture, and Understandings of the
> Environment:
> Lessons for Environmental Policy and
> Education"
> AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EVANSTON,
> ILLINOIS
>
> Organizers:
> Luisa Maffi (Northwestern University/Terralingua)
> Douglas Medin (Northwestern University)
>
> AND RELATED EVENTS
> AT THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
> CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
>
> APRIL 16-18, 1999
>
> PART OF THE "PROJECT MILLENNIUM" INITIATIVE
>
> This symposium convenes a small group of experts,
> including indigenous experts, from different fields (anthropology,
> linguistics, ethnobiology, psychology, education, political science,
> economics, history, ecology, conservation, cultural advocacy) on
> the Northwestern University campus for three days of discussion of
> three related issues: 1. the relationship between understandings
> (mental models) of the environment and resource use, as well as the
> cognitive consequences of diminished intimacy of contact with the
> natural world, 2. cultural and group differences in the meaning and
> "valuation" of environmental goods and their implications for
> environmental decision making and policy, and 3. the complex
> interplay between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity.
> These are all key isues, on which debate rages in academic
> and policy circles alike. Even when scholars and practitioners share
> as their ultimate goal the protection and promotion of biocultural
> diversity, a broad gap appears to subsist between the ones with their
> theoretical frameworks and lengthy research protocols, and the
> others with their concrete aims and need for tools that work--and
> fast. Indigenous and other local peoples are not benefiting from this
> state of affairs, nor does environmental protection; and the general
> public largely remains in need of environmental education
> approaches that will promote real cognitive and behavioral change.
> For this reason, the symposium will put a strong emphasis on
> discussion, beyond the presentation of formal papers. The
> symposium will also afford an opportunity for scholars and
> practitioners to try to reduce the gap between their respective moda
> operandi, as well as for dialogue between indigenous and non-
> indigenous experts.
> Three related events will take place at the Field Museum: the
> panel discussion "When Culture Meets Nature: Diverse Views of
> Hunting and Fishing"; the video screening "Nature and Culture:
> Preserving the Diversity of Life"; and the map exhibit "Cross-
> mapping the World's Biological and Cultural Diversity".
> The symposium takes place in the context of "Project
> Millennium", an educational initiative that will unfold throughout
> 1999 at various museums and cultural and academic institutions in
> the Chicago area, with a variety of events higlighting several major
> themes in the biological and human sciences and the arts. One of
> these themes is the environment. In this connection, the symposium
> will bring to the fore human relationships with the environment from
> several related points of view, and will create a space for
> interdisciplinary reflection and for drawing both philosophical and
> practical lessons for environmental policy and education. The event
> is co-sponsored by Northwestern University and the NGO
> Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity.
>
> GENERAL PROGRAM
>
> *Symposium: Language, Culture, and Understandings of
> the Environment: Lessons for Environmental Policy and
> Education
>
> Experts from different fields of study (anthropology, linguistics,
> ethnobiology, psychology, education, political science, economics,
> history, ecology, conservation, and cultural advocacy) will discuss
> different cultural views of the environment and related educational
> and policy issues. Organizers: Northwestern University &
> Terralingua.
>
> ==> Friday, April 16-Sunday, April 18, 1999. At Northwestern
> University, Evanston Campus, 108 Harris Hall: Friday, April 16, 8
> am-5 pm; Saturday, April 17, 8 am-11.45 pm; Sunday, April 18, 8-
> 11 am.
>
> (Free admission, but limited seating, so please contact Luisa Maffi
> <maffi at nwu.edu> or Douglas Medin <medin at nwu.edu>. For
> further details on the program and the participants, and for abstracts

>
> of their presentations, please visit the website of the Program in
> Cognitive Studies of the Environment at NWU:
> <http://www.psych.nwu.edu/~ross>.)
>
> *Panel discussion: When Culture Meets Nature: Diverse
> Views of Hunting and Fishing
>
> This panel will tackle the implications of diverse cultural
> perspectives on the environment as they relate to hunting and fishing
> activities carried out by different cultural groups. Organizers:
> Northwestern University & Terralingua.
>
> Panelists:
>
> Dale Bowman (Sun Times)
> Doug Cox (Menominee; Hilary Waukau Environmental Services Center)
> Richard Hummel (Eastern Illinois U)
> Douglas Medin (Northwestern U)
> David Oshkhosh (Menominee; NAES College)
>
> ==> Saturday, April 17, 1999. At the Field Museum of Natural
> History, Chicago, Montgomery Ward Hall, 2-5 pm. Free with
> Museum admission.
>
> *Video screening: Nature and Culture: Preserving the
> Diversity of Life
>
> A series of videos on efforts by indigenous peoples from all over the
> world to preserve their cultures and the local environments.
> Organizers: Terralingua & Virtual Learn.
>
> Program:
>
> 1. Pathways & Highways Over the Fields (Finland, Sami) 28 min
> 2. A Thousand Years of Ceremony (USA, Wintu) 37 min
> 3. To The Roots: A Maya Reunion (Mexico/Guatemala, Maya) 28 min
> 4. The Akha Way (Thailand, Akha) 30 min
> 5. Stolen Waters (USA, Hawaiians) 27 min
> 6. Southern Kalahari Bushmen Cultural Audit and Reconstruction
> (South Africa, Kalahari Bushmen) 14 min
> 7. Voices From the Talking Stick (Canada, Haida) 20 min
>
> ==> Sunday, April 18, 1999. At the Field Museum of Natural
> History, Chicago, Montgomery Ward Hall, 1-5 pm. Free with
> Museum admission.
>
> *Exhibition: Cross-mapping the World's Biological and
> Cultural Diversity
>
> Maps of the world showing the overlap between areas of biological
> megadiversity and areas of high cultural diversity. Organizers:
> Terralingua & World Wide Fund for Nature.
>
> ==> Saturday, April 17-Sunday, April 18, 1999. At the Field
> Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Montgomery Ward Lecture
> Hall. During Museum opening hours. Free with Museum
> admission.
>
> ************************
> Luisa Maffi (Dr.)
> Northwestern University
> Program in Cognitive Studies of the Environment
> Dept. of Psychology
> 102 Swift Hall
> 2029 Sheridan Road
> Evanston, IL 60208-2710, USA
> Phone: +1.847.4676513
> Fax: +1.847.4917859
> Email: maffi at nwu.edu
> ************************

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Matthew McDaniel
The Akha Heritage Foundation
386/3 Sailom Joi Rd
Maesai, Chiangrai, 57130
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Mobile Phone Number:  Sometimes hard to reach while in Mountains.
01-881-9288  when in Thailand
66-1-881-9288  when out  Thailand

Web Site:
http://www.akha.com
mailto:akha at loxinfo.co.th

US Address:

Donations by check or money order may be sent to:

The Akha Heritage Foundation
1586 Ewald Ave SE
Salem OR 97302
USA

Donations by direct banking:

In the US can be transfered to:

Wells Fargo Bank
Akha Heritage Foundation
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Keizer Branch
Keizer, Oregon, USA

Outside the US:

Matthew Duncan McDaniel
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Maesai Branch
Thailand
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