Sheperd Lecture
Comparing conservation movements

American environmental historian Donald Worster will compare conservation movements in Canada and the United States for the sixth annual David Sheperd Family Lecture Oct. 28.

        The lecture takes place in Wenjack Theatre at 4:30 p.m.

        Worster has written extensively on environmental history, particularly of North America and the American West. The author or editor of eight books, he has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has received the Bancroft Prize in American History and this year, the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for Conservation Biology.

        His books include Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination and Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West.. He is currently writing a study of the life and times of John Wesley Powell, a 19th-century explorer of the American West.

        Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor in American History at the University of Kansas.

Anthropology talks

The Anthropology Department has organized 11 public lectures this year and named the series after the late Kenneth Kidd.

        Australian prehistorian and this year's Ashley Fellow John Mulvaney gives the third lecture on Oct. 27, The Contribution of Australian Anthropology to World Theory in the Period up to 1930. And Jim Wright, curator emeritus of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, gives the fourth, Some Observations on the 12,000 year Pre-European History of the Native People of Canada, on Nov. 10. Both will take place in Otonabee College 109 at 4:30 p.m.

        The lectures are organized by anthropology professor Julia Harrison as part of the department's graduate program.

        The late Kenneth Kidd chaired Trent's Anthropology Department from 1967 to 1970, was recognized for eminent service in 1983 and received an honorary degree from Trent in 1990. The archeologist was a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and headed major Canadian excavations such as Ste. Marie Among the Hurons.

More pension talks

The Board of Governors decided not to use an Oct. 21 deadline to proceed to the Supreme Court over pension matters between the university and the Trent University Faculty Association (TUFA).

        The board would have had to file its intention to proceed by 5 p.m. Oct. 21, according to VP administration John Earnshaw. Instead, the two parties have agreed to hold further discussions toward resolving outstanding issues.