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SPEAKERS PROGRAM
LSS 100: Issues in Landscape Studies

This Spring semester 2 credit course will meet

Mondays, 4:30 - 6:00 pm, in Weinstein Auditorium-Wright Hall.

It is offered as S/NC only and may be taken twice for credit.

3 short papers and weekly readings related to the speakers’

topics are required. For more information please write to:

Reid Bertone-Johnson[ rbertone@email.smith.edu ]

Ann Leone [ aleone@email.smith.edu ]

                        

                             LIST OF SPEAKERS, SPRING 2010
                              ISSUES IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES

January 25

Reid Bertone-Johnson, Dodson Asssociates, Ltd., Ashfield, MA and Landscape Studies Program, Smith College

TBA                                  

February 1

Neilson Professor Lecture                                                Randolph Hester, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California-Berkeley                                                                                    Design for Ecological Democracy

February   8

The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund Presents

 James Middlebrook, Art Department (Architecture), Smith College 

Green Machine for Living

February 15

Neilson Professor Lecture

Randolph Hester, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California-Berkeley

Geometry and Activist Ecology

February 22

Donald Baumer, Professor of Government, Smith College

TBA

March

1

Marcia McNally, Adjunct Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California-Berkeley

From Flyway to Shophouse: Neighborhood Landscapes in the Glocal World

March

8

Jesse Bellemare, Biological Sciences, Smith College

10,000 Years of Humans in the Forest:  The Ecological Destruction and Regeneration of an Unplanned Landscape

March

22

Setha Low, Environmental Psychology, University of California-Berkeley; President of American Anthropological Society, CUNY

Rethinking Urban Parks, Social Justice and Cultural Diversity

March

29

Neilson Professor Lecture

Randolph Hester, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California-Berkeley

Sex, Lies, and Real Estate

April

5

Jeffrey D. Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Landscape               Architecture, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, New York

The Place of Culture: Everyday Life and the Landscape Idea

April

12

Anne Whiston Spirn, Department of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Rebuilding the Landscape of Community                 

April

19

LSS 100 Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk-Emeritus-

Biological Sciences-Smith College

Francis Moore Lappé, Social Change and Democracy Activist; Author of "Diet for a Small Planet"; Founder of the Small Planet Institute", Cambridge, Massachusetts

TBA

April

26

Kahn Fellows Panel Discussion

  

                                                                                                                                                                       
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