In honor of Earth Day, renowned anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson will be at Wichita State to give two lectures. The first is "Earth our Kin" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in 100 Lindquist Hall. The second is "An Anthropologist looks at the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam," at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in 100 Lindquist Hall. Bateson is professor emerita in anthropology and English at George Mason University. She is the daughter of social anthropology pioneer Margaret Mead and groundbreaking semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson. The lectures are free and open to the public.
