The Robert Schumann Lecture Series in The Environmental Studies Certificate Program will have a variety of new events this October.
Kicking off on Thursday, October 18, at 8 p.m. in PAC001, Wesleyan University, the Long Lane Farm Club will show an Agricultural Film entitled “Future of Food”.
Then on Friday, October 19, the Long Lane Organic Farm invites those students that wish to participate on the farm for a workday experience. The farm is located on the corner of Long Lane and Wadsworth. At 7 p.m. on Friday, October 19, in PAC001, Wesleyan University, guest speaker, Scott Kellogg from The Rhizome Collection will discuss Urban Agriculture.
The highlight of these events will be our Annual Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, October 20, from 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. at Long Lane Organic Farm. There will be various educational workshops, tours of the farm, local vendors, activities, music and food.
Please come out and participate in all the wonderful FREE fall events. For more details about any of these events, please go to our website – www.wesleyan.edu/escp, or contact Valerie Marinelli at 860- 685-3733.
These Fall Events are being sponsored by The Robert Schumann Lectures Series in The Environmental Studies Certificate Program and First Year Matters, Wesleyan University.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS &
THE WESLEYAN WRITING PROGRAM present The 2007 Distinguished Writers Russell House Series
Lora Segal
Wednesday, October 17
8:00 PM The Russell House
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT
Novelist, essayist, translator and children’s book author Lore Segal was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in 1951. Segal’s book, Her First American, was hailed by The New York Times as a contender for The Great American Novel. She is also the author of the novel Other People’s Houses and the short-story collection Shakespeare’s Kitchen. Her children’s books include Tell Me a Mitzi and Why Mole Shouted, and her book of translations of Grimms’ fairy tales, The Juniper Tree, was illustrated by Maurice Sendak. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Ohio State and the University of Illinois.
Free of charge and open to the public, seating is limited.
Contact: Joanna Tice at Russell House Programs, 860-685-3448. RussellHouse@wesleyan.edu.
LECTURE: Bodies and Souls
On Thursday, Oct. 25, the Wesleyan Colloquium for the Study of Science and Religion will host Professor Paul Bloom, who will present a lecture entitled “Bodies and Souls” at 4:15 p.m. at Shanklin 107.
Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction and art. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, is past-president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and is co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, one of the major journals in the field.
Dr. Bloom has written for scientific journals such as Nature and Science, and for popular outlets such as The New York Times, the Guardian and the Atlantic. He is the author or editor of four books, including How Children Learn the Meanings of Words and, most recently, Descartes’ Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human.
The lecture will focus on Dr. Bloom’s work on the psychology of religious belief. Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that children and adults see physical entities such as objects (or bodies) as fundamentally distinct from psychological entities such as minds (or souls). We are natural-born dualists. This has profound implications for our mental life, and helps explain certain surprising facts about religion and morality.
The Wesleyan Colloquium for the Study of Science and Religion, founded in 2006, is a monthly reading group centered around the discussion of issues at the interface of science and religion. It is supported by a grant from the Metanexus Institute, with matching funds from Wesleyan. This semester’s theme is the psychology and neuroscience of religion. The group is open to Wesleyan faculty and students and to members of the community. For more information on the Colloquium, or to be added to its mailing list, please contact Professor Steven Horst at shorst@wesleyan.edu.
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