FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS) is sponsoring a series of three events in early October. The events are part of State Humanities Month and made possible by funding from New York Council for the Humanities. All are open free to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Place: Mercy College, Bronx Campus, Room 113, 50 Antin Place, Bronx, NY. For further information call: (718) 518-7710 or (914) 946-6735. Schedule: Wednesday, October 7, 10:30-noon. David Elyha, Storyteller, "The World Tree." Stories from Guatemala (The Popul Vuh), Sumeria (Inanna's tree throne), Norse, Greece (Odysseus bedroom built around a tree), Native American (Iroquois sky tree), Siberia (Shaman world tree). Thursday, October 8, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Boria Sax, Ph.D., "The Tree of Knowledge." This slide-lecture looks at ways in which people have depicted the Garden of Eden, the tree of knowledge and the forbidden fruit. These representations cover a vast historical range from ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe and the contemporary United States. Saturday, October 10, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. John Mahon, Ph.D., "Trees: Links to the Classical Past." This slide-lecture examines the historical, cultural, scientific and folkloric significance of trees in the Greco-Roman world. These include Homer's oaks and pines, as Hesoid's inspirational ash and the mythological landscapes of Romans such as Virgil. For more information, you may also go the the h-nilas website, using the following hyperlink: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~nilas/ ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
