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  SPRING SYMPOSIUM 2008 — April 2 through 5 amnhlogo

SUSTAINING CULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD: LESSONS FOR GLOBAL POLICY

Symposium Steering Committee 2008

Leslie C. Aiello
President, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, US

Felicity Arengo
Associate Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, US

Alejandro Argumedo
Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth, Peru

Katherine Homewood
Chairperson for Human Sciences, and Convenor, Human Ecology Research Group, University College London, UK

Liz Hosken
Director, The Gaia Foundation, UK

Carol Kalafatic
Associate Director, American Indian Program, Cornell University, US

Laurel Kendall
Curator, Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, US

Ashish Kothari
Member, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group
Co-Chair, IUCN Theme on Indigenous/Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas, India

Kenneth Iain MacDonald
Department of Geography, Program in International Development Studies, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Luisa Maffi
Director, Terralingua

Laurie Obbink
Conference Program Associate, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, US

Aroha Te Pareake Mead
IUCN Councillor, IUCN World Conservation Union and Visiting Research Fellow, Centre of Environmental Law, Division of Law, Macquarie University, Australia

Jane Mt. Pleasant
Associate Professor and Director, American Indian Program, Cornell University, US

Christine Padoch
Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany, Institute of Economic Botany, International Plant Science Center, The New York Botanical Garden, US

Gleb Raygorodetsky
Program Officer, Global Biocultural Initiative, The Christensen Fund, US

David Rapport
Principal, EcoHealth Consulting, Canada

Kent Redford
Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute 
and Vice President, Conservation Strategies, Wildlife Conservation Society, US

Eleanor Sterling
Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, US

Alaka Wali
Executive Director, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, Field Museum, Chicago, US

Paige West
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University, US

Peter Whiteley
Curator, Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, US

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Voices From Around The World
Submit written or visual responses to a series of questions concerning the links between your own culture and the natural world...

Panel Discussions
Host a panel discussion (up to 60 minutes) on a topic related to the Symposium’s main themes...

Ubuntu Discussions
Host a discussion or workshop on a topic related to the Symposium’s main themes...

Poster Session
Submit a poster abstract for inclusion in the Symposium’s Poster Session...

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