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Drew Lanham \u2013 author and poet, wildlife ecology professor, conservationist, birder \u2013 will be the keynote speaker during the second annual Academic and Creative Excellence Festival<\/a> at Eastern Mennonite University. The title of his keynote, which will include reflections and reading from his essays and poetry, is <\/span>“The Evolution of a Right-Brained Ecologist \u2014 Objective Data Gatherer to Artful Absorber.”<\/p>\n

The presentation, which is open to the public, is in Lehman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17. A reception will follow in the Campus Center.<\/p>\n

The ACE Festival<\/span> highlights EMU\u2019s devotion to academic rigor, the creation of new knowledge, creative expression through the arts, the application of knowledge to solve problems, and the praxis of Anabaptist values. Gallery openings, special events and presentations will feature the works of faculty, staff and students.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have Dr. Drew Lanham join our campus conversation about vocation, and to hear about his journeys as artist, academic and conservationist,\u201d said Professor <\/span>Kirsten Beachy<\/span><\/a>, chair of the Intellectual Life Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lanham, a native of South Carolina, holds a PhD in forest resources and an endowed chair as an alumni distinguished professor at Clemson University, where he has taught for two decades. He is active on a number of conservation boards including the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, South Carolina Audubon, Aldo Leopold Foundation, BirdNote and the American Birding Association. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, he is an inaugural fellow of the Audubon-Toyota Together Green initiative, a member of the advisory board for the North American Association of Environmental Education and a fellow of the Clemson University Institute for Parks. He was named a 2016 Brandwein Fellow for his work in environmental education.<\/span><\/p>\n

His book <\/span>The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man\u2019s Love Affair with Nature<\/span><\/i> (Milkweed Editions, 2016), received the 2017 Southern Book Prize and the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHistory\u2019s shadow can be a long one, especially when cast cruelly or when remedies to right wrongs are made without consideration for everyone and everything,\u201d Lanham wrote in an <\/span>Orion Magazine article \u201cForever Gone.\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u201cDo we readily reveal these chapters in history? Does conservation bear a responsibility to illuminate the dark corners where not only birds and beasts have suffered, but humans have as well?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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