The words we use to describe our terms of engagement with fire shape the stories we tell about it. 
And the stories we tell shape the way we act.  As the future for many places promises to be hotter, drier, and more fire-prone, “Words on Fire” will consider the range of language we currently use to grapple with wildland fire, and look toward new metaphors and revitalized language that might help us forge ever more thoughtful, realistic, flexible, and creative relationships with wildland fire.

Thursday, November 1 - Gilfillan Auditorium, OSU - 7PM

Stephen J. Pyne, Arizona State University - Keynote Address

Friday, November 2 - Richardson Hall 107, OSU - 9AM-3PM

Bill Anthony, US Forest Service (retired) - 20 year perspective on changing terms of engagement with
                                                                    wildland fire in a complex social/natural environment
Colleen Morton Busch, Author of "Fire Monks" - Fire as "teacher" and the Tassajara fire story

Tim Ingalsbee, Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, & Ecology (FUSEE) - Changing terms of engagement
                                                                                                                        from fire-fighters perspective
Mary Beth Leigh & Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Fire Science Consortium  -
                                                                                                  Fire science and the arts in performance

All Events are free and open to the public

Space for the Friday workshop is limited. 
The organizers request an RSVP to Charles.Goodrich@oregonstate.edu

Sponsored by:  the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word; OSU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion; OSU College of Forestry; Joint Fire Sciences Program; and the Northwest Fire Science Consortium.