The Wirth Forum on Religion and Nature in the West will present a public colloquium led by CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Professor Patricia Limerick and Professor Mark Silk, director of the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Connecticut, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the Hale Science Building, room 270.
The talk at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will be a synopsis of two days of conversation by a gathering of academic experts from across the United States.
The purpose of this year's Wirth Forum on Religion and Nature in the West is to bring together people who study religions in the West to look together at ways the environment and environmentalism have affected specific religious groups. The group also will look at ways religion affects ideas about and actions toward the environment.
The forum will examine both institutional and non-institutional, or popular, forms of religion. Part of the project will be to consider the best ways to study non-institutional forms of religion and how to get at religious attitudes toward the environment and their effects on environmental issues.
Participants in the forum include professors from Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Wisconsin and CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø.
The Wirth Forum is sponsored by the CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Center of the American West and is made possible by Wren and Tim Wirth.
For more information call (303) 492-4879.