Cultures at the Confluence:
The SusquehannaValley and Environmental Humanities, 2008-09
Confluences of water attract confluences of people. Throughout the history of human settlement of new landscapes the junctions of rivers and streams have been places that attract activity, like crossroads on the heath. The conjoining of these natural pathways brings peoples together, sometimes for the trade of goods and knowledge, sometimes for war, sometimes for marriage, following the landscape, along the valleys, down the river, to the mouth of the stream, from diverse points on a humanly constructed compass. Over time, confluences of cultural narratives and environmental patterns meld and reshape one another, forming larger contexts that in turn transform human perspectives and interaction with the environment. [learn more]
Eight events spotlight new approaches to the Susquehanna Valley as a region
Sponsored by:
the Office of the Provost
the Bucknell Environmental Center
Environmental Humanities
Susquehanna Initiatives
