University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty members Katrina Jagodinsky, Sarah Karle, and Tom Lynch will share the stage at Sheldon Museum of Art to discuss how landscape has been perceived, altered, and imagined in modern history.
The free presentation, offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Approaching Landscape,” is November 1 at 6 p.m. in the museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.
Katrina Jagodinsky is a legal historian and the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century women’s creative and critical uses of the law as they countered the expansion of empire, misogyny, and racial hierarchies in personal and political contexts throughout the North American West. In addition to many articles, she is author of "Legal Codes & Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran & Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946" (Yale University Press, 2016), and co-editor of "Beyond the Borders of Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West" (University Press of Kansas, 2018).
Sarah Karle is an associate professor of landscape architecture in the College of Architecture. Her scholarship critically examines the role of ecology and history in the contemporary practice of landscape design. She is currently collaborating with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and the National Agroforestry Center to create the Nebraska Shelterbelt Archive, a publically available online resource documenting the evolution of the state’s shelterbelts.
Tom Lynch is a professor of English. He teaches and researches the relationship between literature and the natural environment. He is the author of "Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature;" and has also published a number of edited collections including "The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place" and "Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time." He is the editor of the journal "Western American Literature." His current research project is a study of the literature of the American West and the Australian Outback.
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