Past Symposia

1984

Crossing the Boundaries with John Haines, Sam Hamill, William Kittredge; Sheila Nickerson, William Pitt Root, John Adams (composer), and Ruth Knier.

1985

Crossing the Boundaries: Landscape and Language with Margaret Atwood, Carolyn Forché, Robert Hass, Barry Lopez, Nancy McCleery, Peter Nabokov, and Richard Nelson.

1986

Culture and Landscape: Toward a New World View with Siv Cedering, China Galland, John Haines, Lewis Hyde, Mary Oliver, and Paul Shepard.

1987

Writing the Natural World: Science, Spirit and Imagination with Nora Dauenhauer, Barry Lopez, Carolyn Merchant, Melinda Mueller, Gary Nabhan, Nanao Sakaki, and Gary Snyder.

1988

The Art of the Story with Jim Dodge, Eliza Jones, Pete Sinclair, Gioia Timpanelli, and Barre Toelken.

1989

Allegiances: Locating Ourselves in Place and Culture with John Hildebrand, William Kittredge, Elsie Mather, William Stafford, and Terry Tempest Williams.

1990

Groundwork: Renewing the Covenants that Sustain Us with Rachel Craig, Robert Hass, Wes Jackson, John Keeble, and Stephanie Mills.

1991

Confluences: Personal Vision and the Responsible Voice with Hugh Brody, Ursula Hegi, Linda Hogan, James Nageak, and Chet Raymo.

1992

Stories We Live By: Our Habit, Our Heritage, Our Hope with Ted Chamberlin, Martha Demientieff, Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Michael Pyle, and Pattiann Rogers.

1993

10th Anniversary Retrospective with Hugh Brody, Jim Dodge, John Haines, Eliza Jones, William Kittredge, Gary Nabhan, Sheila Nickerson, James Nageak, Pattiann Rogers, Terry Tempest Williams.                                       (Two week special session; five faculty each week.)

1994

The Spirit of Human Work with Lorna Goodison, Teresa Jordan, Robert McCarl, John Pingayak, and Tom Wayman.

1995

Landscape and Community: Imagining Common Ground with Alison Deming, Ken Grant, Daniel Kemmis, Scott Russell Sanders, and Rina Swentzell.

1996

Earth Household: Community and the Natural Common Wealth with Linda Hasselstrom, Tom Lyon, Richard Nelson, Don Snow, and Martha Vlasoff

1997

Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing with Martha Demientieff , Ursula Franklin, David Lee, Ted Hoagland, and Gary Holthaus

1998

A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center That Holds, I with Ted Chamberlin, John Daniel, Cecilia Martz, Melinda Mueller, Ray Rasker

1999

A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center That Holds, II with Vernita Herdman, James Kilgo, David Orr, Pattiann Rogers, and Don Snow

2000

Matters of Faith, Matters of Fact with Julie Cruikshank, Ursula Goodenough, Oscar Kawagley, Bill McKibben, and Kathleen Moore

2001

Gifts of Grace: Restoration, Reconciliation and Forgiveness with Wendell Berry, John Daniel, Lorna Goodison, Vernita Herdman, and Alfredo Vea

2002

Creating a Geography of Hope with Dolly Garza, Christopher Merrill, Kathleen Moore, and Ben Webb

2003

How to Love This World: 20th Anniversary and Celebration with Vernita Herdman, David Lee, Stephanie Mills and Scott Sanders.             Celebration guests: John Daniel, Linda Hogan, Gary Holthaus, John      Keeble, Kathleen Moore, Richard Nelson, Don Snow, and Rina Swentzell.

2005

If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories? with Mary Clearman Blew, Ted Chamberlin, Barry Chevannes, Romaine Moreton, Levi Namaseb and Neil Sterritt.

2006

Radical Compassion / Across the Great Divides with Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Rabia Terri Harris, Micheline Marcom, Alan Senauke, and Sandy Tolan.

2007

On the Edge: The Necessity of Beauty with Tom Jay, Barbara Ras, Scott Russell Sanders, and Rina Swentzell

2008

Gifts of Nature, Gifts of Culture: Who Owns the Commons? with William deBuys, Alison Deming, Vernita Herdman, and Don Snow

2009

FrameWork: Shaping an Enduring Human Culture with Gary Holthaus, Robin Kimmerer, and Gary Snyder

2014

Radical Imagining: Changing the Story with Stories of Change with Winona LaDuke, Molly Sturges, Luis Urrea, and Alan Weisman