On April 16-17, 2027 we are hosting the Muir Symposium: Searching for Sense of Place and we are excited Stevie Ruiz will join us and give a talk about his research on voices often left out of environmental narratives and how that relates to place.

Since 1980, the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California (home of the largest collection of John Muir writings in the world)  has hosted the Muir Symposium to explore and examine John Muir, the early Conservation Movement, and the Environmental Movement. The event has focused on topics such as Muir’s friends and family, Muir as a naturalist and scientist, his practical ways, his perspectives on peoples and parks, and his legacy.