The Center for Children's Literature and Culture at the University of Florida, the Howe Society, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida with the Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS) present:

Transforming Encounters III: Children and the Environment

 

Date: March 8-11, 2006
Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Location: Phillips Center for Performing Arts
Doors Open at 7:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Free and Open to the Public

Thursday, March 9, 2006

Location: Emerson Alumni Hall
6:30-9:30 PM

Reception

Keynote Speaker: Richard Louv

 

Friday, March 10, 2006

Location: Grand Ballroom, Reitz Union
8:30-10:00

Auditorium

Morning Plenary: Introduction to the Tracks
Jonathan Cannon, Edith Brown Weiss, and Sandra Zellmer

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder: A Conversation with Richard Louv

Richard Louv and Robert Hutchison

12:00-1:30

Lunch (on your own)

Paul Bunyan Mock Trial in the Auditorium

1:30-3:00

Earth, Wind, and Fire: Nature, Science, and Art

Annie Whittaker Pais, Stewart J. Thomas, Mike Spranger

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-5:00

Exhibiting Nature

Kathy Lehnhardt, Donald Forgione, Nancy Feresten

 
Location: Savannah Grande
7:00-10:00

PIEC Evening Banquet

Keynote Speaker: Philippe Cousteau

By Registration Only

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Location: Grand Ballroom, Reitz Union

9:00-10:30

Auditorium

Morning Plenary

Persuasive Speaking Workshop/ Grassroots Success Stories

10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30

Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism

Susan Jaye Dauer, Sid Dobrin, Michelle H. Martin, Kenneth B. Kidd

12:30-1:30

Lunch

Location: Auditorium

1:30-3:30 Grand Finale

Carole Browner, Rena Steinzor, and John Cech