Event: Illinois Wesleyan Environmental Studies Program and the English Department will host Deborah Slicer who will speak on, “Environmental Ethics, Place, and the Disappearing Poet.”

Date: October 4, (Monday)

Time and Locations: 4:30 p.m., Beckman Auditorium of The Ames Library, 1 Ames Plaza, Bloomington.
8:30 p.m., poetry reading, Evelyn Chapel, 1301 N. Park St., Bloomington.

Location: Beckman Auditorium of The Ames Library, #1 Ames Plaza, Bloomington

Admission: Free and open to the public

Background: Philosopher and poet Deborah Slicer won the first Autumn House Poetry Prize in 2003, for her book, The White Calf Kicks. The judge for the competition, Naomi Shihab Nye, says that Slicer’s poems are “brilliant and breathtaking, original and haunting, riveted with meaning and music.”

Slicer is an associate professor at the University of Montana in Missoula where she teaches a number of different classes, among these the History of Modern Philosophy and Philosophy and Literature. She specializes in environmental ethics and ecofeminism, and is also the co-founder of the University of Montana’s Program in Ethics, Agriculture, and Society (PEAS). She has also been a member of the editorial board for the journal Environmental Ethics, and was a guest editor for Ethics and the Environment, an interdisciplinary forum, in winter 2003.

Slicer received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1989 and her M.F.A. from the University of Virginia in 2000.

Contact: For more information, contact the IWU Environmental Studies Program at (309) 556-3923, or the English Department at (309) 556-3333.