Oelschlaeger's talk, part of this fall's Environmental Lecture Series at SSU, is in the Wicomico Room in the Guerrieri University Center.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
Oelschlaeger is the McAllister Chair of Community, Culture and Environment at Northern Arizona University. Writing persuasively on the philosophical and religious underpinnings of various environmental positions, Oelschlaeger has been involved in writing or editing over 13 books dealing with environmental history and environmental philosophy. A Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis , are used in environmental history courses taught at Salisbury State. Oelschlaeger pointed out in his article on Henry David Thorea for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Global Change , Thoreau is now understood as a new renaissance man whose outlook on culture and nature was informed by a nascent evolutionary paradigm. Thoreau was not only a cultural iconoclast, but skeptical of abstract scientific or philosophic knowledge unleavened by immediate and personal contact with and later reflection on nature.