Laura Franklund recently asked about "notable figures in the = developement of natural history and evolution." Specifically, she asked = about Jane Lubchenco and Deborah Rabinowitz. = Jane Lubchenko is a community ecologist, specializing mainly on marine = nearshore ecosystems. She is (last I knew) in the Dept. of Zoology at = Oregon State University. She was President of the Ecological Society of = America in 1992-93. Deborah Rabinowitz was also a community ecologist, specializing on = plants. She was at the University of Michigan until about 1980, when she = moved to Cornell. She died in the mid 1980s at a very young age, of = cancer I believe. Her most significant contribution was a pair of = seminal papers defining "seven forms of rarity," a concept cited in all = of the current texts in conservation biology. -- = R. L. Curry = Assistant Professor of Biology Biology Department 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova University Villanova PA 19085 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] =B3My attention was first thoroughly aroused, by comparing = together the numerous specimens=8Aof the mocking-thrushes=8A=B2 = -- Charles Darwin (1845),Voyage of the Beagle >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 14 09:43:42 1996 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:46:11 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liam Campion) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Literature conf References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yo greg, what's up with the literature conference? academia is not my current environment, and travel funds are limited but i'm intrigued. there might be fun here. what it is... as they say in these parts. i have been thinking of sending some of my handmade paper from last year to a native american visual artist who uses narrative strongly in his work. HACHIVI HEAP OF BIRDS. he also teaches sundance. His contemporary medium: billboards and digital signs. He's at the University of Oklahoma teaches painting in the Art Department if you can't find the institution in the web send him a prospectus @ 2008 Lakeview/ Norman Oklahoma 73071 (Studio: 1-405-360-2771) a fantastic quilter i know is using narrative in her quilts. she's angling for a show at the whitney after her national grant i wonder if she'd be interested. i make paper and books and garments with writing on them. i don't know if i could pull off a scroll made of that paper when the leaves were falling into the vat, like a thick mat of dried leaves. it might be interesting. do you have room, security for a show of art? a friend uses verbal narative in performance, something from susan griffin: woman and nature, the roaring inside her. if your definition of environment includes social contexts some of my work might fit... hmmm how interdisciplinary do you want to go? and shipping costs... fairly minor.. and then there's installation. ?? I've never seen wales but then with the damn navy testing missles off the long island coast i'm not sure i want to risk being airborne... did you hear that over the net? some here think the plane downed enroute to France was done in by friendly fire... aquaintances more familiar with the military say anything is possible. by the way your post about milk was especially delightful. i hope i've saved a copy. the evolutionary development of true lactation is an intriguing point in time for me... did you know that in theory it coincides with the shift in brain for dreaming? not everyone on the list is too bou(g)hie for gardening. mine's tiny and overgrown, full of indigenous plants the neighbors abhor as weeds, much medicine... and so rampantly unsightly! we could dine on escargot if we ate slugs but it's beginning to frost, sigh and we're getting some of that yank red flaming out in the leaves in edgerows. luck, m.b. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 14 15:07:17 1996 15 Oct 1996 10:07 +1300 (NZD) 15 Oct 1996 10:08:46 +1300 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:08:11 +1300 From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Call For Papers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Lincoln University FYI. Please contact the organizers for more info. Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laura Duhan Kaplan) > Subject: Call for papers The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 1997 Annual Conference, CALL FOR PAPERS Authenticity, Autonomy and Authority: Problems of Meaning in the Contemporary World August 10 - 15, 1997 YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado PAPERS DUE MARCH 1, 1997 You are Invited to Submit Papers, Panels, and Suggestions for Book Sessions on topics such as: Politics and Social Change * activism * anarchy * social ecology * Eco-Feminism * multi-party political systems Human Nature and Personal Identity The Metaphysics of Freedom Knowledge, Language and Meaning Technology, Geography and the Environment * Green Politics * The Sagebrush Movement * public lands and private use * architecture and the politics of space * technology and the idea of "progress" * the city and the country Business, Economy and the Global Context * the global economy and national boundaries * business ethics * nationalism and postnationalism * postcolonialism and the "New World Order" * the North/South dialogue Race, Culture and The Present Political Landscape * separatism and integration * the idea of racial essentialism * religion and politics * the New Conservatism * culture wars and cultural politics Perspectives on Sex, Gender and Sexuality * feminism and the backlash * androgony, transexuality and sexual essentialism * gay and lesbian issues Cognition and Action Private Life and Subjectivity * notions of family and family values * the sexual division of labor * defining "home" and "homelessness" * post-modernity and "the death of the subject" The Search for Personal Meaning * spirituality and the religious quest for meaning * philosophical bases for meaning * character, education and human development Send three copies of the final paper or proposal suitable for blind review. Papers should not exceed 20-30 minutes reading time (15 pages). We also encourage submissions of works in progress for our poster sessions (4-5 pages). These short papers will be distributed prior to presentation so as to allow more emphasis on discussion. Please also send an abstract of the paper and a brief (one paragraph) autobiographical sketch suitable for publication in the conference program. Papers will not be included in the final program unless we receive an abstract and a biography. Volunteers to be session chairs are welcome. Send papers to: Craig Hanks Philosophy Department, 332MH University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further information, contact: Sharon Hartline Department of Philosophy Radford University Radford, VA 24142 please recycle Laura Duhan Kaplan Assistant Professor of Philosophy Coordinator, Women's Studies Program University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 (704) 547-2780 fax: 704-547-2172 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] websites: http://www.uncc.edu/colleges/arts_and_sciences/philosophy http://www.uncc.edu/womens_studies ************************************ Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************
