Environment Lecture at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute with Richard Hoath, October 16 6PM

 The NVIC organizes weekly Thursday lectures on a variety of subjects.The lectures start at 6 p.m. sharp. The door opens at 5.30 p.m. Please note that seating is limited. The lecture will start as scheduled and late admissions are not allowed. After the lecture refreshments will be served in the hall of the Institute.

Starting a new round of lectures and movies, NVIC starts this year’s autumn season with the topic environment. Regarding the dictionary, environment stands broadly for two things: a) the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates, and b) the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity. With NVIC’s October theme environment, we would like to look into some of the topics attached to the broader notion of environment. What is surrounding us, and how does it affect us? How do we treat our environment, and what is the result?

More about the lecture on the NVIC website: http://www.institutes.leiden.edu/nvic/news/lectures-films.html

Richard Hoath will be giving a talk about the extraordinary birds and animals in Egypt.

Richard Hoath is the scientific consultant of the AUC Press Nature Foldouts and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition and the Administrator of the Core Seminar at AUC. Hoath’s big passion is natural history and he has published extensively on the fauna of Egypt in scientific journals, in popular magazines, and as a monthly environmental columnist for Egypt’s leading English language magazine Egypt Today. His latest book A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt went into its second edition in 2009. Hoath is currently working on a further book on Egypt’s mammals incorporating the stunning lithograph’s from John Anderson’s Zoology of Egypt: Mammalia (1902) accompanied by his own narrative.

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