Environmental Studies

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Symposium Panel: Beauty and Pleasure in the Good Life

Date: October 28 2009 5:00pm - 6:30pm Location: Stamm Hall

As important as material and financial security are to the good life, we all know that aesthetic dimensions are important too, and environmentalists often extol the beauty of nature. Is the good life mostly about doing good, or is it about experiencing beauty and pleasure as well? How can the arts help us reimagine a pleasurable good life? What of the discoveries of science, with their own attendant beauty and pleasure? And what about nature, which for some is a primary source of aesthetic inspiration: is this possible or even desirable for everyone?

Scheduled to Appear:
Katherine Ball, Co-Curator, SEA Change Gallery
George Crandall, Principal, Crandall Arambula
Liz Safran, Associate Professor of Geological Science, Lewis and Clark College