Last week Lewis & Clark College hosted the 35th Annual Gender Studies Symposium, three days of panels, round table discussions, keynote addresses, and more speaking to the theme Game On: Gender and Sexuality in Play.  The gender studies symposium always showcases an incredible array of interdisciplinary social commentary that bridges different academic theories and fields […]

I recently looked back at my posts from my environmental studies intro class. My very first post, titled Limitlessness, connects our foundational Limits to Growth and IPAT readings to Wendell Berry’s Faustian Economics and his essay “Staying Put” from his book The Unsettling of America. I first read Berry when I was a junior in […]

“When an apple fell on his head, Isaac Newton was inspired to describe his three laws of motion. These became the foundation of our ideas about physics. Being essentially objective, Newton ignored what it feels like to be the apple.” This is the introduction to  Fall After Newton, a video describing Steve Paxton’s modern dance […]