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Columns::February 25, 2002

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Spring Charter Lecture will deal with the relationship between man and nature

By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu

Environmental historian and author William Cronon, whose writings challenge conventional thinking about the environment and

William Cronon

the link between people and the natural world, will present the spring Charter Lecture Feb. 28.
Cronon, also an authority on the history of the American West and urban history, will speak at 4 p.m. in the Chapel. His talk, “Humanist Environmentalism: A Manifesto,” is open to the public.
His 1991 book, Nature’s Metropolis, won the Bancroft Prize in American history and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The book received honorable mention in the John Hope Franklin Prize competition and won several other honors, including an award from the American Society for Environmental History for the best book in environmental history, and the Forest History Society’s award for the best book in forest and conservation history.
Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of history, geography and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin. Before joining Wisconsin in 1992, he was on the history faculty at Yale University for 13 years. A former Rhodes Scholar and recipient of MacArthur and Danforth fellowships, Cronon is a past president of the American Society for Environmental History and serves on the governing council of the Wilderness Society and the board of the Urban History Association. He has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and was an inaugural member of the board of the Environmental Leadership Program.
The Charter Lecture was started in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that founded the University of Georgia as the first state-chartered university in America. The series brings to campus speakers who discuss ideas of general importance to a free society.

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