2007 Asle Conference

Coastal Carolina panel: Jan DeBlieu, Ann Cary Simpson, Bland Simpson.

Bland Simpson, Ann Cary Simpson, and Jan DeBlieu take questions from the audience. Also: music by Bland Simpson.

On Friday morning, the topic was Hurricane Katrina. Featured speakers were John Biguenet, whose columns on the storm and its aftermath were printed in the New York Times, and environmental justice expert Robert Bullard.

Canadian poet Di Brandt and Fred Chappell, Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002, were the speakers.

Di Brandt and Fred Chappell take questions from the audience.

Home Ground: A Literary and Scientific Collaboration.

Orion Magazine Panel On The New, New Environmental Writing. Part 2

Orion Magazine Panel On The New, New Environmental Writing

Forest canopy expert Nalini Nadkarni was the speaker Wednesday afternoon at the 2007 ASLE conference held on the campus of Wofford College.

Acclaimed author Bill McKibben was the keynote speaker for the 2007 ASLE conference in Spartanburg, SC.

This week, Wofford is hosting the conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Writers, scholars, and activists from all over the world are here -- or on their way -- for several days of talks and discussions. In this podcast, Dr. Ellen Goldey talks about efforts to bring the conference to Wofford.