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Lycoming College will host Scott Manning Stevens, Ph.D., as the final speaker of its Environmental Justice Symposium and keynote at its fourth Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference. Stevens’ talk, “The Haudenosaunee and the Ethos of Sustainability,” is slated for Saturday, April 11, 5 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room, Krapf Gateway Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Stevens is an enrolled citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and an associate professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a courtesy appointment in Art History, at Syracuse University. He also serves as director of the Native and Indigenous American studies program and is the founding director of the new Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice at Syracuse. He earned his doctoral degree from Harvard University and has held a variety of fellowships in his field, including a recent fellowship at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies. He is the co-author of three books and the author of numerous published essays and book chapters. His work address issues around Native material culture, the history of ethnographic collecting, and museum studies.
Preceding Manning’s keynote address, Lycoming will honor select students who presented research at the event. Currently, 78 undergraduate students from 26 institutions are scheduled to present their research work in the humanities and related disciplines for consideration of the top prizes.
Environmental Justice Symposium
A semester-long series of lectures and hands-on activities, the Environmental Justice Symposium is designed to inspire students, faculty, and Williamsport residents to think about how the environment impacts their communities, as well as how art and storytelling can support the environmental justice movement. The goal of the Symposium is to educate the Lycoming College community on environmental justice issues in Pennsylvania and beyond.
Humanities Research Center and Undergraduate Conference
The Lycoming College Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference is a gathering and celebration of the region’s bright minds who are dedicated to furthering the humanities through high-level research. The Humanities Research Center at Lycoming College bolsters educational opportunities for those majoring or minoring in the humanities by supporting joint student-faculty research, internships, guided scholarship, digital humanities, graduate school placement, and fellowships. Select proceedings of the conference are featured in the Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review. More information about the Conference can be found online.