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The John Muir Center for Environmental Studies
University of the Pacific
What has been saved; what has been lost:
John Muir’s Legacy, 1914-2014
March 21-22, 2014
The University of the Pacific's John Muir Center celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite
Grant, the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death and the extinctiono of the Passenger Pigeon, and
the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness
Act by another conference to revisit John Muir’s life and legacy. University
of the Pacific hosted the 60th California
History Institute on its Stockton campus from
Friday, March 21, through Saturday, March 22, 2014.
This was the 8th of the series of conferences on John Muir sponsored by the University of the Pacific. Papers were presented by new Muir scholars currently
working Muir’s legacy, as well as
several familiar names who have become regulars at
Muir symposia. Plenary sessions and keynotes were given by three scholars now living in the U. K.:
Terry Gifford, Graham White and Andrea Wulf.
A special exhibit on the history of the Muir Papers
and their present locations was included, as well as
coordinated field trips before the symposium See more on our 2014 symposium announcement page.
As California's most important historical personality,
John Muir was a regional naturalist with global impact.
His papers at the Holt-Atherton Library are among the University's most important resources for scholarly research.
Recognizing the need both to
encourage greater utilization of the Muir Papers by the scholarly
community and to promote the study of California and its
impact upon the global community, the John Muir Center for Environmental
Studies was established in 1989 (originally as the John Muir Center for Regional Studies) with the following objectives:
- to foster a closer academic relationship between UOP and the
larger community of scholars, students, and citizens interested in
regional and environmental studies;
- to provide greater opportunities for research and publication by
UOP faculty and students;
- to offer opportunities for out-of-classroom learning experiences;
- to promote multi-disciplinary curriculum development.
Program Activities
These objectives are implemented through a variety of activities
sponsored and promoted by the John Muir Center, including:
- A special publications program that includes the John Muir Newsletter ,
a quarterly publication with articles, book reviews and
news of interest to Muir scholars;
- Periodic seminars and workshops to offer faculty, students and
other scholars a forum for presenting Environmental research results, to
discuss ways and methods of utilizing Environmental resources in ongoing
classes, and to facilitate multi-disciplinary planning and
programs;
- Grant projects designed to raise special funds for faculty and
student research, for a computerized database and bibliography for
the John Muir Papers, for collection development, and for Environmental
history projects such as the Bank of Stockton project to catalog
and make computer-accessible a major collection of historical
Environmental photographs;
- Course offerings with a regional or environmental emphasis.
Currently such courses are offered independently on a semester
basis by a number of departments, including Biology, English,
Geology/Geography, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Chemistry, Engineering, and Economics.
- Visit John Muir and the Sierra Club - off-site link to a website/blog created by students at the University of the Pacific, hoping to "educate young minds on who John Muir was, his importance, his legacy, and his impact. Enjoy exploring through old photographs, ways to volunteer, viewing nature landscapes, listening to beautiful narrations from John Muir's journals, and even videos of current Sierra Club members themselves."
- The John Muir Center:
- facilitates the utilization, coordination, and marketing of existing
courses having an environmental scope or emphasis;
- offers support services for faculty interested
in adding an environmental component to ongoing courses;
- encourages the utilization of intercession, summer school, and vacation times for specialized offerings in an environmental context;
- assists faculty interested in team-teaching or
pooling courses with an environmental emphasis in order to promote
multi-disciplinary curricular development.
- A regular symposium with a thematic emphasis on some
aspect of regional/environmental studies.
The California History Institute,
started at the University of the Pacific in 1954 by "Mr. California",
Dr. Rockwell Hunt, and subsequently sponsored by the John Muir Center
and its predecessors, has been enlarged and incorporated into this
annual symposium;
- 1980 The World of John Muir - An illustrated book jacket summary of the University's first John Muir confrence, (from the book's front matter), including the table of contents and author biographies.
- 1985 John Muir: Life and Legacy - reprint from The Pacific Historian , Vol, 29, Numbers 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 1985)
- 1990 John
Muir: Life and Work (1993) - publisher's press release about
this book based on papers presented at the 1990 John Muir conference
- 1993:
John Muir: Life and Work,
by the University of New Mexico Press; a new volume based on the presentations made to the California History Institute in 1996, entitled
John Muir in Historical Perspective
was published in 1999;
- 1996 John Muir Conference Abstracts of Papers - by University of the Pacific
- 2001 Conference: John
Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (2005) - publisher's press
release and book
jacket and table of contents about this book derived
from papers presented at the 2001
John Muir Conference.
- 2006 Conference: John Muir in Global Perspective.
- 2010 Conference: John Muir: Naturalist and Scientist
- 2014 Conference : What has been saved; what has been lost:
John Muir's Legacy, 1914-2014
- 2018 Conference: The Practical John Muir
Staff
Director: William Swagerty, Ph.D., University of the Pacific
For Further Information
For further information contact the staff at
The John Muir Center for Environmental Studies (official website)
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, California 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2527
Fax: (209) 946-2578
E-mail:
johnmuir@uop.edu
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