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Nature & The Environment: The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series

Edwin Way Teale

About the Series

The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series developed as a joint effort of a number of departments, out of discussions initiated in 1995 by faculty members and graduate students with common interests in the many facets of environmental issues. The Lecture Series is designed to bring a variety of distinguished speakers to the University to speak on various aspects of nature and the environment.

The Teale Lecture Series received the Joshua's Trust Conservation Award in recognition of Outstanding Conservation Efforts in 2007.

All lectures are free, open to the public and held at 4:00 pm in the Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, unless otherwise noted.



September 20, 2007

Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University
"Corporate Environmentalism: Doing Well by Doing Good?"


October 4, 2007

Michael J. Bean, Attorney, Chair of the Wildlife Program, Environmental Defense Fund
"Endangered Species Conservation: An Assessment and Prognosis"



November 15, 2007

Ariel Lugo, Director, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
"Emerging new forests in the shining star of the Caribbean"



February 7, 2008

Ivette Perfecto, Professor of Natural Resources, University of Michigan
"Brewing biodiversity: the ecology of coffee farms in Chiapas, Mexico"



March 20, 2008

Roger Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Hope in a Dark Time: The Promises of Religious Environmentalism"



April 10, 2008

Joseph Bruchac, Storyteller and Writer
"This Earth, Our Mother"



Do you have an idea for a lecture?
Please contact one of the Teale Lecture Series Committee members



Past Lecturers



The Lecture Series is sponsored by:

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Graduate School, Offices of the President & Provost, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, School of Engineering, Center for Conservation & Biodiversity, Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Office of Environmental Policy, Center for Environmental Science & Engineering, School of Fine Arts, UConn School of Law, Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics, Natural Resources Management & Engineering, Geosciences Program, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and the departments of Economics, English, Geography, Philosophy, and Political Science.


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