An event at Avery Point that may be of interest

I recently learned about an event at UConn Avery Point that may interest some of you. If you're driving from Storrs, please carpool!

STORRS, Conn. - A symposium entitled "Indigenous People and The Environment"
is being held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28, in the Branford House on UConn's Avery Point
campus. This event is part of a year-long Learning Community initiative called
"Looking for Indians: Indigenous People and the Environment," coordinated by
Campus Director of Academic Services Susan Lyons and Assistant Professor of
Anthropology Margaret Bruchac.

The Learning Community is centered on two INTD (inter-disciplinary) courses for
freshmen and sophomores taught by Lyons and Bruchac. In addition, twenty faculty
from thirteen disciplines have devised new teaching units to assist students in exploring
Native American issues from various disciplinary perspectives. For more information,
visit: http://www.averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/learning_community.htm

Bruchac serves as the Coordinator of Native American Studies at the Avery Point
Campus. For the symposium, she will be joined by panelists Sandy Grande (Associate
Professor of Education at Connecticut College), William Green (Director of the Logan
Museum), Syma Ebbin (Research Coordinator for the Connecticut Sea Grant Program
at Avery Point), Jason Mancini (Senior Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
and Research Center), and Greg Stone (Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Avery Point).
The panelists will discuss how professionals from different backgrounds and academic
disciplines and Native American peoples approach these topics through a variety of
methods, and how conceptions of natural resources and sustainability and territory
shape our understandings of indigenous people, past and present.

For a map and directions, visit: http://averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/direct.htm

For more information:
Margaret Bruchac, (860) 405-9059, Margaret.bruchac@uconn.edu