Each June since 1984,
the Sitka Symposium has explored relationships between writing and
questions of social and ethical importance, between ideas and the
responsibilities of our work and our lives.
Because so much about our human lives is recorded and preserved
through language, we have framed each symposium with a guest faculty
of writers and thinkers whose work lends insight to questions posed
by a selected theme.
We deliberately bring together a faculty from diverse backgrounds to
juxtapose different disciplines and perspectives--astronomers and
novelists, poets and anthropologists, Westerners and Alaska Natives,
naturalists and linguists, folklorists and biologists.
The CHRONOLOGY
page offers a sense of the symposium's legacy.
The
2008 Symposium, "Gift of Nature, Gifts of Culture: Who Owns the Commons?" will take place June 18-22, 2008. Contact us early to reserve yourself a spot for what promises to be a remarkable gathering. |
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"The Institute draws
upon a vision I see as unparalleled in range and depth as well as
commitment to the future of our planet."
Jean Anderson
Resident Fellow Fairbanks |
