Alumni and Parent Events - Colorado College

April 14-15, 2007
Rio del Mar beach house of Meryl and Bob '61 Selig
with Trustee John Chalik '67 in the kitchen
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Susan A. Ashley:
Beloved History Professor, 2002 Riley Award Recipient,
and now Dean of the College and Dean of the Faculty
presents

Wild Beasts and Mountain Tops:
What past encounters tell us about present dilemmas

How people see nature and imagine themselves in relationship to it determine how they treat it.
Petrarch, it is said, was the first person to climb a mountain just to get to the top.
Now people pay substantial sums to summit Mount Everest. Modern scientists observe
the physical traits and the behavior of animals in order to classify them according to species and genus.
From the medieval perspective, they’re missing the essentials.

These differences reflect more basic ways of thinking.
How did Christianity inform Western views of the place of humans in nature?
Did the Scientific Revolution challenge or reinforce those attitudes?
To what extent do these religious and scientific ways of understanding the world
explain how we now view and value the environment?



The Schedule

Saturday
10 a.m. Coffee at beach house; room check in
10:30 a.m. News from Colorado College
10:45 a.m. Introduce faculty. Program overview.
12:45 p.m. Beach break
1:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Discussion
4 p.m. Beach break
4:30 p.m. Resume discussion
6 p.m. Happy Hour
7:30 p.m. Dinner

Sunday
9:30 a.m. Breakfast at beach house
10:30 a.m. Discussion
Noon Program ends

To register, send a check payable to CCBAAC
with your name, class year, address, phone, preferred email account and number of attendees to:

Rob Adkisson ’92, 172 Shake Tree Lane, Scotts Valley, CA 95066

- Your check is your confirmation
- Thirty people may spend the night and enjoy the discussion
- Non-alumni guests limited to one
- No children, please
- Refunds only if we have enough notice to fill your slot
- Spots will fill quickly, so register ASAP
- Reading assignment will be sent to registrants prior to event

Questions? Call Rob at (408) 834-8574 or email Adkisson@Alumni.ColoradoCollege.edu.