Symposium Program

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Embodied Knowledge: Decoding and Recoding the Self

Subverting Greed: Living Not on but in Communion with Earth

Subverting Greed: Living Not on but in Communion with Earth

Preserving Pluralism: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Preserving Pluralism: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Translating, Reframing, & Embracing Contradictions

Translating, Reframing, & Embracing Contradictions

Reimagining Adaptation

Reimagining Adaptation

Mining Unknowns

Mining Unknowns

The Evolutionary Ingenuity of LOVE

The Evolutionary Ingenuity of LOVE

Narrating the Human Footprint

Narrating the Human Footprint

The Infinite Illusion, Disillusion, and Promise of Truth

The Infinite Illusion, Disillusion, and Promise of Truth

Time and Place as Context

Time and Place as Context

Being Human: the Art of Science; the Science of Art

Being Human: the Art of Science; the Science of Art

Academic and Creative Symposium

Dalel Serda
Professor of English | Co-Chair
dserda@com.edu
409-933-8497

Gwendolynn Barbee-Yow
Associate Professor of English | Co-Chair
gbarbee@com.edu
409-933-8776

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