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���ϰٿ�’s Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts examines ways a liberal arts education might encourage sustainability and ecological efforts at its 16th annual conference March 23-25. Plenary sessions of the Conversation on the Liberal Arts, “” are free and open to the public. Registration, which includes all meals Friday dinner through Saturday lunch, as well as shuttle service between select hotels and the ���ϰٿ� campus, costs $250 for general admission or $100 for students (graduate or undergraduate). To register or for more information, please visit or call (805)565-6124.

Speakers include , professor of chemistry at Princeton University; , religious studies professor at Hope University and environmental-studies specialist; , the U.S. policy director at Oil Change International and board of director member of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives; and , assistant professor of history at Boston College with an emphasis in environmental science and political ecology.

“This is a conference where administrators, scholars and practitioners from large universities, small liberal arts colleges, public or private institutions, faith-based institutions and those with no religious affiliation can explore shared challenges from our differing contexts,” says y, director of the Gaede Institute. “We will consider how a liberal arts education might invite attentiveness to one’s natural environment. We’ll also share ideas for developing and sustaining programs, pedagogies and curricula that more effectively address environmental concern.”

The three-day conference will include a poetry reading from , ���ϰٿ� professor of English, and , ���ϰٿ� alumna and poetry editor of . The conference will conclude with a closing lunch on ���ϰٿ�’s Magnolia Lawn Saturday, March 25, at 12:15p.m.

The Gaede Institute, created in 2001, promotes the continued vitality of the liberal arts tradition in American higher education. In May 2006, ���ϰٿ� renamed the institute after its founder, former president .