Come learn about the history of exploration, see tools of the trade, and discuss what new frontiers exist for us to discover in the new millennium, as the University of Hartford hosts a panel discussion on “Beyond the Extremes: Contemporary Narratives of Exploration,” on Thursday, May 3, from 2 to 4 p.m., in Wilde Auditorium (in the Harry Jack Gray Center) on the University of Hartford campus, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford..
The panel will feature Michael Robinson, a scholar of exploration and associate professor of history in the University of Hartford’s Hillyer College; snow leopard conservator and Himalayan anthropologist Shafqat Hussain; visual artist and expeditioner Adriane Colburn; Claire Rossini, director of Trinity College's InterArts Program and poet; and Helen Rozwadowski, coordinator of maritime studies at UConn-Avery Point.
The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education in collaboration with WNPR Radio (90.5 FM) and Drunken Boat, an international online journal of the arts. The panel discussion will be moderated by radio personality John Dankosky, host of WNPR's "Where We Live," and introduced by Central Connecticut State University poet-in-residence and Drunken Boat Executive Director Ravi Shankar. The program will be broadcast on "Where We Live" the following week.
