Symposium Chronology

SITKA SYMPOSIUM HISTORY IN OUTLINE: THEMES AND FACULTY		"The symposium was a transforming experience ... Those seven days will leave their mark on my work." Chet Raymo Symposium faculty astronomer, essayist North Easton, Massachusetts
1984	Crossing the Boundaries with John Haines, Sam Hamill, William Kittredge; Sheila Nickerson, William Pitt Root, John Adams (composer), and Ruth Knier.
1985	Crossing the Boundaries: Landscape and Language with Margaret Atwood, Carolyn Forché, Robert Hass, Barry Lopez, Nancy McCleery, Peter Nabokov, and Richard Nelson.
1986	Culture and Landscape: Toward a New World View with Siv Cedering, China Galland, John Haines, Lewis Hyde, Mary Oliver, and Paul Shepard.
1987	Writing the Natural World: Science, Spirit and Imagination with Nora Dauenhauer, Barry Lopez, Carolyn Merchant, Melinda Mueller, Gary Nabhan, Nanao Sakaki, and Gary Snyder.
1988	The Art of the Story with Jim Dodge, Eliza Jones, Pete Sinclair, Gioia Timpanelli, and Barre Toelken.
1989	Allegiances: Locating Ourselves in Place and Culture with John Hildebrand, William Kittredge, Elsie Mather, William Stafford, and Terry Tempest Williams.
1990	Groundwork: Renewing the Covenants that Sustain Us with Rachel Craig, Robert Hass, Wes Jackson, John Keeble, and Stephanie Mills.
1991	Confluences: Personal Vision and the Responsible Voice with Hugh Brody, Ursula Hegi, Linda Hogan, James Nageak, and Chet Raymo.
1992	Stories We Live By: Our Habit, Our Heritage, Our Hope with Ted Chamberlin, Martha Demientieff, Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Michael Pyle, and Pattiann Rogers.
1993	10th Anniversary Retrospective with Hugh Brody, Jim Dodge, John Haines, Eliza Jones, William Kittredge, Gary Nabhan, Sheila Nickerson, James Nageak, Pattiann Rogers, Terry Tempest Williams. (Two week special session; five faculty each week.)
1994	The Spirit of Human Work with Lorna Goodison, Teresa Jordan, Robert McCarl, John Pingayak, and Tom Wayman.
1995	Landscape and Community: Imagining Common Ground with Alison Deming, Ken Grant, Daniel Kemmis, Scott Russell Sanders, and Rina Swentzell.
1996	Earth Household: Community and the Natural Common Wealth with Linda Hasselstrom, Tom Lyon, Richard Nelson, Don Snow, and Martha Vlasoff
1997	Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing with Martha Demientieff , Ursula Franklin, David Lee, Ted Hoagland, and Gary Holthaus
1998	A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center That Holds, I with Ted Chamberlin, John Daniel, Cecilia Martz, Melinda Mueller, Ray Rasker
1999	A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center That Holds, II with Vernita Herdman, James Kilgo, David Orr, Pattiann Rogers, and Don Snow
2000	Matters of Faith, Matters of Fact with Julie Cruikshank, Ursula Goodenough, Oscar Kawagley, Bill McKibben, and Kathleen Moore
2001	Gifts of Grace: Restoration, Reconciliation and Forgiveness with Wendell Berry, John Daniel, Lorna Goodison, Vernita Herdman, and Alfredo Vea
2002	Creating a Geography of Hope with Dolly Garza, Christopher Merrill, Kathleen Moore, and Ben Webb
2003	How to Love This World: 20^th Anniversary and Celebration with Vernita Herdman, David Lee, Stephanie Mills and Scott Sanders. Celebration guests: John Daniel, Linda Hogan, Gary Holthaus, John Keeble, Kathleen Moore, Richard Nelson, Don Snow, and Rina Swentzell.
2005	If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories? with Mary Clearman Blew, J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin, Barry Chevannes, Romaine Moreton, Levi Namaseb and Neil Sterritt.
2006	Radical Compassion / Across the Great Divides with Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Rabia Terri Harris, Micheline Marcom, Alan Senauke, and Sandy Tolan.
2007	On the Edge: The Necessity of Beauty with Tom Jay, Barbara Ras, Scott Russell Sanders, and Rina Swentzell