Summer Seminar: The Art of the Bee

Dr. Robert E. Page Jr

The Garden’s Summer Seminar is an opportunity to interact in a seminar format with a distinguished scholar/author over a three-day period.

This year’s inaugural seminar will feature Professor Robert E. Page, Jr., one of the foremost honey bee geneticists in the world. The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. As noted in the abstract of his most recent book (The Art of the Bee) “bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They’ve painted our landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities and have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment.”

Dr. Page has published more than 250 research papers and articles and is the author of The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution, published by Harvard University Press in 2013 and The Art of the Bee: Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

He is Provost Emeritus and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, a UC Davis Distinguished Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and has served as an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Professor Page was recently featured as a “legend” in the American Entomologist, the official publication of the American Entomological Society, which stated that he “is considered a pioneer in the field and one of the current top bee scientists.” A colleague stated that Page is “arguably the most influential honey bee biologist of the past 30 years.

Some of Page’s many honors include:

• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
• Awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (the Humboldt Prize - the highest honor given by the German government to foreign scientists)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Elected to the Leopoldina - the German National Academy of Sciences (the longest continuing academy in the world)
• Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and
• Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences 

Professor Page’s Garden Summer Seminar will be based on his book “The Art of the Bee” and will focus on four topics over three half day sessions August 7-9:

• Environmental Engineers
• Landscape Artists
• The Social Contract
• The Song of the Queen

Enrollment in the Summer Seminar is limited to 25 people and includes a copy of “The Art of the Bee,” an opening reception in the Garden on Tuesday, August 6th , and lunch on August 7th, 8th, and 9th.

Times:

Tuesday, August 6th at 5:30-7:00pm

Location: Santa Fe Botanical Garden Orchard Gardens, 715 Camino Lejo

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday August 7-9th at 9:00am-2:00pm

Location: Udall Building 2nd Floor Conference, 725 Camino Lejo

$140 for Members 

$250 for Not-Yet-Members

Cancellations and refunds: If you need to cancel, please contact us at 505.471.9103. There are no refunds.

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