Speaker: Darren J. Ranco, Citizen of the Penobscot Nation, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Chair of Native American Programs, Faculty Fellow, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, UMaine The promise of both sustainability science and indigenous research methods are for greater partnership and relevance of research to different community and societal needs. Here at […]

For more information and tickets, please visit the 2019 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability page. An Optimistic Vision for a Sustainable, Wild, and Socially Just World Keynote Speaker: EJ Milner-Gulland, University of Oxford, U.K. With remarks by Senator George J. Mitchell In 2020, governments will hopefully agree upon a new vision for nature and people, that […]

2019 McBride Distinguished Lecturer in History * Please note the change in venue to Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. Geoff Cunfer, Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan For most of human history, farmers were society’s crucial energy suppliers, fueling human labor and animal transportation. Firewood and charcoal from farms cooked food, heated homes, and fired industry. […]

Speaker: Andrea Feldpausch-Parker, Dept. of Environmental Studies, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry In this talk, Dr. Feldpausch-Parker will discuss her recent research in small scale dam removal public workshops in New York State’s Hudson and Mohawk Watersheds. The goal of these workshops are to help communities think through local […]