Friday, March 16, 2012
Karl Zimmerer, head of the Geography Department at Penn State, will present "Indigenous Knowledge and Human-Environmental Change: The Farming and Potential Sustainability of High-Agrobiodiversity Food Plant Complexes amid Intensifying Global Trends" at noon on March 21, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library on the University Park campus of Penn State. This is the latest talk in the ongoing Interinstitutional Consortium of Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) Seminar Series, cosponsored by the Social Sciences Library and ICIK. (more)
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The beauty of nature and the stars at night have fascinated mankind for centuries, but bringing that fascination into the classroom in the academic study of astronomy and natural sciences is difficult. So a recent Penn State conference brought together educators and researchers from across the country to address bridging academic and folk sciences through traditional ecological knowledge. (more)
Monday, April 18, 2011
Anthropologist James Sheehy will present "Worldview, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Subsistence among Foraging and Agricultural Societies" at noon on April 27, in 203 Paterno Library on Penn State's University Park campus. This presentation is part of a series of seminars on indigenous knowledge sponsored by the University Libraries and the Interinstitutional Consortium on Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) and is free and open to the public. The presentation also can be viewed live online at http://breeze.psu.edu/icik. (more)
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Sometimes seeing -- and hearing -- is believing, and that may be especially true with indigenous knowledge.
That's why a transdisciplinary team of Penn State educators, collaborating with community members and scholars at other universities, has created a series of 12 compelling videos demonstrating the importance of indigenous knowledge in developing and implementing entrepreneurial strategies to foster self-determined development. (more)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Penn State has received $50,000 from the Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment to support indigenous knowledge studies and activities. The gift will create the Marjorie Grant Whiting Endowment for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledge. The University is part of a global network of more than 20 indigenous knowledge resource centers and is the only center currently active in the United States. (more)
