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January 20th, 10-4pm, Join The Center for Agroforestry’s Annual Symposium; Food, Fire, & Agroforestry for the Future: Ecological Knowledges for Climate Resilience
The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri hosts this free online event to share important themes in their work. This year, they will bring attention to the ways that intercultural perspectives in land-based sciences are essential as we collectively face current climate realities. Registered attendees will receive access to the full online Symposium for webinars, a community forum, film screening, presenter book giveaways, and seminar recordings.
Presenters at this year’s Symposium include:
Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Muscogee scholar of Indigenous ecological knowledges and climate change at Haskell Indian Nations University;
Dr. PK Ramachandran Nair, professor emeritus and renowned leader in international agroforestry studies;
Lil Milagro Henriquez, founder and director of the Mycelium Youth Network, providing ancestrally-grounded education programs for low-income youth;
Melinda Adams, PhD candidate and recognized Apache (N’dee) scholar focused on the importance of revitalizing cultural burns; and
Dr. Frank Kanawha Lake, Karuk research ecologist with US Forest Service focused on Traditional Ecological Knowledge, wildland fire, climate change, and ethno-ecology.
For event details and registration, visit https://centerforagroforestry.org/annual-symposium/.
