COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture presents, "The Sacred and Sonorous Desert: Acoustic Ecology and the Monastic Tradition," a lecture by Kim Haines-Eitzen (Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University).  COLLIS is an affiliate of Cornell United Religious Work.

Early Christian monasticism developed, in part, from ancient quests for solitude and silence, and in close relationship to the desert, both real and imagined. This talk will use field recordings from modern desert environments, and the field of acoustic ecology more broadly, to help shed light on the monastic traditions of late ancient Egypt, Palestine, and Sinai.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Music at Cornell, Chesterton House, Cornell Catholic Community, the Episcopal Church at Cornell, the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and the Protestant Cooperative Ministry. This lecture is made possible by the grant, "In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on College Campuses Nationwide," (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.