{"id":9613,"date":"2012-09-12T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:20:18","slug":"lecture-honors-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/12\/lecture-honors-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence to deliver Sept. 17 Honors Council Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mark Lawrence, professor of geography at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, will deliver an Honors Council Lecture on natural resource management in Kenya on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence&rsquo;s presentation, &ldquo;The Bamboo of Kilui and the Figs of Kwa Muthita: Natural Resource Management in Liminal Landscapes,&rdquo; will be held at 7 p.m. in Hagg Sauer 112 on the Bemidji State campus. Honors Council Lectures are open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will examine the natural resource management in liminal landscapes and the relationship between the Akamba culture in Kenya and the &ldquo;political ecology of capitalist industrialization of agriculture&rdquo; within the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence teaches geography at Bemidji State. He has assisted community-planning efforts of environmental scientists and has worked with the Foundation Agency for Rural Development of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The Honors Council Lecture Series is hosted by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Honors Council. The council is the advisory group to the honors program comprised of 12 faculty members from each of the University&rsquo;s colleges. Student representatives also are elected to the council by their cohorts for one-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Honors Council Lecture Series, please contact the honors program at (218) 755-3984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mark Lawrence, professor of geography at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, will deliver an Honors Council Lecture on natural resource management in Kenya on Sept. 17. Lawrence&rsquo;s presentation, &ldquo;The Bamboo of Kilui and the Figs of Kwa Muthita: Natural Resource Management in Liminal Landscapes,&rdquo; will be held at 7 p.m. in Hagg Sauer 112 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43709,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions\/43709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}