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Guest Speaker: Prof. Kent Peacock
Day/Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: B-543 (University Hall)
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is one of the most remote places of human habitation in the world. It is famed for its iconic statuary and as a tragic example of ecological collapse and the effects of piratical colonization. This past summer I travelled to Rapa Nui with my son Evan Peacock and another student, Dillon St. Jean, to photograph, film, and learn as much about the island as a ten-day visit would permit. (The trip was made possible by generous support from the Rolof Beny Foundation and the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group.) I’ll recount some of the high (and low) points of our trip, and ask whether we learned anything that might help answer this question: Is it necessarily the case that planet Earth can be, in the end, nothing more than "Easter Island writ large"?
Everyone Welcome
Contact:
Bev Garnett | bev.garnett@uleth.ca | (403) 380-1894