Photo courtesy of Mario Amaya-Velazquez
James Cowan presents a lecture in Sarah Kings LIB 100 class on March 26.
James Cowan presents a lecture in Sarah Kings LIB 100 class on March 26.
Author discusses Aborigines and 'dreaming'
Mar 27, 2013
Author and lecturer James Cowan spoke about the “dreaming life”
during several campus and classroom presentations sponsored by the
Padnos International Center.
Cowan discussed the dreaming life of Australian Aborigines March
25 in the Kirkhof Center. He refers to the dreaming as stories and
lore of Aborigines; Cowan said they are facing a crisis to preserve
dreaming because of industrialization.
“I am of the opinion that we will regret desacralizing the
land,” Cowan said. “Once the story is gone from the landscape, we
cannot get it back through relandscaping after mining. The aborigines
have a lot to teach us about history through landscape. It is not
frozen in time, it is living and we can apply it to our lives.”
Cowan’s latest book is "Fleeing Herod: A Journey Through
Coptic Egypt with the Holy Family."
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