Talk: “Sweet Water Seas: From Shorelines to Storylines” by Nina-Marie Lister

• Event Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018
• Time: 5:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series.

Professor Lister will reflect on our relationship with the Great Lakes Basin —the land-lake interface specifically —over the last century, and the last 25 years in particular. Through the lens of her own experience living and working on the northern edges of these lakes, she draws insights into the complexity of this regional, bi-national land-water system, to explore transboundary and transdisciplinary relationships that have shaped the basin, and that reveal strategic interventions that have alternatingly sacrificed and saved these waters. In unpacking this complexity, she frames the Great Lakes Basin as both litmus and agent of change, and from this, projects forward a renewed agency of design for these “sweet waters,” and our own resilience.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture in conjunction with the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Department of Entomology, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, Department of Geology, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Illinois State Water Survey, and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE).