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This special event, co-sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art, is part of the Hall Center's "Globalization(s) Seminar" series, which provides opportunities for scholars from across disciplines to exchange ideas and scholarship on any issue associated with globalizations - past and present, large-scale and small-scale, near and far, real and imagined. The Spring 2008 focus is "Globalization and the Environment."Four speakers form the panel for this discussion, entitled "Art and the Environmental Endgame." They are:Stephen Goddard, Professor of Art History, Senior Curator and Curator of Prints & Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas / Introductory CommentsBarry Newton, Professor of Architecture, The University of Kansas / "The New Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins: Is it Green?"Dan Wildcat, Professor of American Indian Studies & Director of the Haskell Environmental Research Center, Haskell Indian Nations University / "Indigenous Realism: Can We 'Save Ourselves'?"Marguerite Perret, Assistant Professor of Design at Washburn University, Topeka, and mixed-media artist / "Living in the Simulated Garden"Thursday, February 21/ 3:30-5 PM / Hall Center for the Humanities Conference Hall