Speakers Program Archive
Spring 2012 Schedule
January 30, 2012
Introductory Lecture
Reid Berton- Johnson, Lecturer, Landscape Studies, Smith College
February 6, 2012
"Permaculture: Design for Social Change and Community (re)Development"
Keith Zaltzberg, Regenerative Design Group, Greenfield, MA
February 13, 2012
"Prosperina Vine: A Portrait of a Natural Vineyard and the Quest for Terroir"
Deidre Heekin & Caleb Barber, Proprietors of "osteria pane e salute/la garagista", Woodstock, NY
February 20, 2012
"Attaining the Living Building Challenge: The Smith Bechtel Environmental Classroom"
Rick Klein, The Bershire Group, Inc., Northampton, MA
February 27, 2012
"Monitoring the Forests: What Do Scientists Do at Experimental Forests to Understand Environmental Change?"
Amy Rhodes, Associate Professor, Geosciences, Smith College
March 5, 2012
LSS 100 Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk, Emeritus-Biological Sciences, Smith College: "An Ecological and Cultural History of the MacLeish Field Station"
Jesse Bellemare, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Smith College
March 12, 2012
"The Singing Life of Birds"
Don Kroodsma, Professor Emeritus Biology Department, UMass-Amherst
March 26, 2012
"Inscribing the Oxbow: Local Landscape as Text"
Dean Flower, Professor English Language & Literature, Smith College
April 2, 2012
"The Law's Treasures and Traps"
Janet Milne, Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School
April 9, 2012
The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund presents "Reading the Landscape"
Ann Whiston, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, MIT
April 16, 2012
"Thinking Through Movement: Landscaping Performance"
Heidi Gilpin, Associate Professor, European Studies, Amherst College
April 23, 2012
"High Performance Buildings"
Deidre Manning, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Smith College
April 30, 2012
"Audubon's Garden: Landscapes and Plants in The Birds of America"
John Burk, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, Smith College
Spring 2011 Schedule
January 24, 2011
"It's just history!: a pathway to environmental justice for all"
Nina Antonetti, Assistant Professor, Landscape Studies, Smith College
January 31, 2011
Recent Grads Forum
Bridget Schmelzer Abraham (Smith College), Christine Cobden (Smith College), Andrea Olson (UMass-Amherst)
February 7, 2011
Anita Licis-Ribak, Latvian-born interior architect, artist and renowned photographer
February 14, 2011
"Wood: New Direction in Science and Engineering"
Peggi Clouston, associate professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
February 21, 2011
"Weaving Together Sustainability and Design"
Stephanie Odegard, president and founder of Odegard, Inc., New York, NY
March 7, 2011
LSS 100 Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk, Emeritus, Biological Sciences, Smith College
"Too Many Damn Peonies: Confessions of a Plant Hoarder "
Tracey Putnam Culver, chief gardener, Botanic Garden, Smith College
March 21, 2011
"Concept and Materialization: Working in the Built Environment"
Sigrid Miller Pollin, Practicing Architect and Professor, UMass-Amherst
March 28, 2011
Beverly Willis, architect, artist, author, activist and filmmaker of "A Girl is a Fellow Here: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright." This film will be shown in its entirety and is being presented courtesy of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.
April 4, 2011
"Boundary Crossing—journeys across architecture, engineering, humanities and performance"
Frances Bronet, dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon
April 11, 2011
"Gardening for the 21st Century: The Sustainable Landscape"
Marie Stella, landscape historian and designer, Beaver Lodge Environmental Center, Shelburne Falls, MA
April 18, 2011
"Books, Babies and Buildings: Balancing Family and Career"
Meg Vickery, Ph.D., architectural historian
April 25, 2011
"Indirect Paths"
The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund Presents: Patricia Oliver, Dean, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Texas, Houston
Spring 2010 Schedule
January 25, 2010
"Your World: See It Again for the First Time"
Reid Bertone-Johnson, Dodson Asssociates, Ltd., Ashfield, MA and Landscape Studies Program, Smith College
February 1, 2010
"Design for Ecological Democracy"
Neilson Professor Lecture: Randolph Hester, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California-Berkeley
February 8, 2010
"Green Machine for Living"
The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund: James Middlebrook, Art Department (Architecture), Smith College
February 15, 2010
"Geometry and Activist Ecology"
Randolph Hester, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California-Berkeley
February 22, 2010
"Recent Sustainability Efforts by State and Local Governments"
Donald Baumer, Professor of Government, Smith College
March 1, 2010
"From Flyway to Shophouse: Neighborhood Landscapes in the Glocal World"
Marcia McNally, Adjunct Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California-Berkeley
March 8, 2010
"The destruction and regeneration of ecological pattern in an unplanned landscape: 10,000 years of human impacts on the forests of the Northeast"
Jesse Bellemare, Biological Sciences, Smith College
March 22, 2010
"Rethinking Urban Parks, Social Justice and Cultural Diversity"
Setha Low, Environmental Psychology, City University of New York; President of American Anthropological Society
March 29, 2010
"The Place of Culture: Everyday Life and the Landscape Idea"
Jeffrey D. Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, New York
April 5, 2010
"Sex, Lies, and Real Estate"
Randolph Hester, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California-Berkeley
April 12, 2010
"Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Rebuilding the Landscape of Community"
Anne Whiston Spirn, Department of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 19, 2010
"Liberation Ecology—Shedding Disempowering Ideas to Create the World We Want"
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
Spring 2009 Schedule
January 26, 2009
"How I Discovered Landscape Studies: One Path Toward a Broad Horizon"
Reid Bertone-Johnson, Dodson Associates, Ltd., Ashfield, MA and Landscape Studies Program, Smith College
February 2, 2009
"Cities from Scratch: Designing Urban Environments in Asia and Beyond"
James von Klemperer, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox, New York, NY
February 9, 2009
"Anatomy of Infill Projects"
The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund Presents Stephen Schreiber, Architect, Director and Professor Architecture & Design Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
February 16, 2009
"Quenching Our Thirst: Sustainable Water Resources for a Changing World"
Andrew Guswa, Associate Professor of Engineering, Smith College
February 23, 2009
"A Clash of Cultures: The Landscape of the Gullah Communities of South Carolina"
Elizabeth Brabec, Head of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, University of Mass, Amherst
March 2, 2009
"Reading Landscape: Modern America and the Cultural Landscape Idea at Mid Century, 1951–1968"
Jeffrey Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Landscape Studies, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, New York
March 9, 2009
"Design for Sustainable Development"
Lloyd Eagan, Regional Director, South Central Region of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and Patrick Eagan, Department of Engineering Professional Development, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin
March 23, 2009
"Subjects + Objects: Rediscovering the Inhabitant of Architecture"
Thom Long, Five College Assistant Professor of Architecture Studies, Hampshire College
March 30, 2009
"Building a Path to Extinction: How our planning of cities and communities damages our health, environment and society and the changes that need to take place...Now."
Len Hopper, Senior Associate/Director of Promotion, Mark K. Morrison Associates Ltd, Landscape Architects
April 6, 2009
"Invention and Context: Blake Williams Architect"
Blake Williams, Architect, Five Colleges Associate
April 20, 2009
"The Unicorn in the Metropolis"
Paula Deitz, Editor of The Hudson Review
April 27, 2009
"Rods, Cones, and Purple Mountain Majesties"
LSS 100 Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk-Emeritus Biological Sciences: Michael Marcotrigiano, Director-Smith College Botanic Garden, Smith College
Spring 2008 Schedule
January 28, 2008
"Practicing Sustainability: Design, Planning, and the Environment"
Nina Antonetti, Assistant Professor-Landscape Studies, Smith College
February 4, 2008
"Venturing Beyond the Smith Campus: The Natural History of the Connecticut River Valley and Its Influence on Art, Culture, and Science in the United States"
LSS 100 Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk-Emeritus Biological Sciences: Laurie Sanders '88, Naturalist and Producer/Host of Field Notes (on 88.5 FM - WFCR)
February 11, 2008
"The Nature of Landscape Architecture: Design and the Evolution of Environmental Thought from the Mid-19th Century to Today"
The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund Presents: Jeffrey D. Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY
February 18, 2008
"Sustainable Mitigation of Natural Hazards: Can It Be Achieved?"
Robert Burger, Professor of Geology, Smith College
February 25, 2008
"The Contested American Countryside: What Makes Rural Landscapes Rural?"
Robert Rakoff, Professor of Politics and Environmental Studies – Hampshire College
March 3, 2008
"Visit Paris France Where Landscape and History Meet"
Ann Ramsey, Professor-History Department, Smith College
March 10, 2008
"Acting Locally"
Gretchen Schneider ‘92, Principal-SchneiderStudio
March 24, 2008
"Politics and Urban Planning: Does a Community Have the Right to be Wrong? A Brooklyn Case Study"
Greg Atkins, Chief of Staff-Brooklyn Borough, Brooklyn, NY
March 31, 2008
"Infiltrait Design"
Sara Marie Cohen ’00, Designer, Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, MA
April 7, 2010
"Miami-Dade County Parks and Open Space System Master Plan"
Maria Nardi, Urban Designer/Park Planner; Dade County, Miami, Florida
April 14, 2008
"Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime"
Kenneth Helphand, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
April 21, 2008
"Turf Wars: The Great American Lawn"
Michael Marcotrigiano, Director-Smith College Botanic Garden
April 28, 2008
"Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field"
Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, MIT
Spring 2007 Schedule
January 29, 2007
"Beyond Green"
Nina Antonetti, Landscape Studies, Smith College and Ann Musser, Curator of Education, Smith College
February 5, 2007
"The Many Faces of Sustainability"
Signe Nielsen, FASLA; Mathews Nielsen Lanscape Architects PC, New York, NY
February 12, 2007
"Green Infrastructure for Cities: The Spatial Dimension"
The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund Presents Jack Ahern, Professor and Department Head -- LARP UMass-Amherst
February 19, 2007
"Designing Sustainable Communities: An Exploratory Learner-Centered Pedagogy Using Models, Mortar, Microcontrollers, and Mayhem"
Paul Voss, Engineering Department, Smith College
February 26, 2007
"The Invisible Laandscape (Underground Smith)"
Gary Hartwell, Project Manager-Campus Operations and Facilities Smith College
March 5, 2007
"The Lines to Hold: Greenways in a Sea of Landscape Change"
Paul Cawood Hellmund, Professor and Director--Conway School of Landscape Design, Conway, Massachusetts
March 12, 2007
"Sustainable Mitigation of Natural Hazards:Can It Be Achieved?"
Robert Burger, Geology Department, Smith College
March 26, 2007
"From Global Village to Cosmic City: The Trajectory of Urbanization"
Peter Oberlander, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia and founder of the School of Community and Regional Planning, Vancouver, Canada
April 2, 2007
"Community Building by Design"
Mark Cameron, Executive Director--Neighborhood Design Center, Baltimore, MD
April 9, 2007
"One Drop at a Time, New Resourceful Paradigms for the Small Scale"
Marcus de la fleur, Diploma in Horticulture at Kew Gardens; MLA; ASLA Elmhurst, Illinois
April 16, 2007
"Tilting at Windmills -- Wind Turbines in the Landscape"
Harry Dodson, Landscape Architect-Dodson Associates, Ltd. Ashfield, MA
April 23, 2007
"Botanical Interventions:Landscape, Art and Activism"
Oliver Kelhammer, Artist (A.O.C.A.), Vancouver, Canada
April 30, 2007
"The Botanic Garden: A Peculiar Institution"
John Burk, Professor in Biological Sciences, Smith College
Spring 2006 Schedule
January 30, 2006
"Foundations in Theory and Practice"
Jeff Blankenship, Landscape Studies Studio Instructor, Smith College Landscape Studies
February 6, 2006
"Wetlands of Mass Destruction:Restoring the Ecological and Cultural Landscapes of the Marshes of Southern Iraq"
Robert France, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University
February 13, 2006
"What Isn&339;t Landscape Studies"
Nina Antonetti, PhD, Lecturer in Landscapes Studies, Smith College
February 20, 2006
"Landscape, Ecology, and the Necessity of Poetry"
Dean Flower, Professor of English, Smith College
February 27, 2006
"Housing Design On Our Lives: How Design Informs Social Policy"
Ellen Pader, Associate Professor of Retional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Director, Joint Degree in Planning and Law at Western New England College
March 6, 2006
"A Genuis For Place: American Landscape Of The Country Place Era"
Robin Karson, Executive Director, Library of American Landscape History
March 13, 2006
"Margins Fade Forever and Forever When I Move: Landscape in Travel Literature"
Pamelo Petro, Novelist and Travel Writer, New York Times
March 27, 2006
"From Global Village to Cosmic City: The Trajectory of Urbanization"
Peter Oberlander, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia and founder of the School of Community and Regional Planning
April 3, 2006
"Security and Design in NYC Landscapes"
Leonard Hopper, FASLA, Head of Landscape Architecture, New York City Housing Authority
April 10, 2006
Susan Cohen, Landscape Architect and Paula Deitz, editor of The Hudson Review, both Smith Alumnae
April 17, 2006
"A Geographical Approach to Landscape Analysis: Understanding the Built Form of Paris, Illinois"
Michael Conzen, Professor of Geographical Studies, University of Chicago
April 24, 2006
"The Anacostia Waterfront: The Center of 21st Century Washington"
Uwe Brandes, V.P., Director of Capitol Projects and Planning, the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation
May 1, 2006
"The Botanic Garden: A Peculiar Institution"
John Burk, Professor in Biological Sciences, Smith College
Spring 2005 Schedule
January 24, 2005
"What Isn't Landscape Studies?"
Nina Antonetti, PhD, Lecturer in Landscape Studies, Smith College
February 7, 2005
"Modernism and Its Limits: The Development of National Park Landscapes in the 1950s"
Ethan Carr, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, UMass, Amherst
February 14, 2005
"The Dead Shall Be Raised: The Landscape of the Victorian Cemetery"
Cornelia Pearsall, Assoc. Prof. of English, Smith College
February 21, 2005
"Quo Vadis: the Environment on Trial"
Philip McKnight, Environmental Lawyer and Lecturer
February 28, 2005
"Language as Homeland: Contemporary Landscapes of Yiddish"
Justin Cammy, Asst Prof of Jewish Studies & Comparative Lit., Smith College
March 7, 2005
"Bridges and Tall Buildings: A Manmade landscape"
Alexander Chajes, Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UMass, Amherst
March 21, 2005
"Shaping the Design: The Stories Behind the Landscapes"
Clara Batchelor (Smith, '72) Principal, CBA Landscape Architects
March 28, 2005
"What You See Is Not What You Get: German Jewish Monuments and Memorials after the Holocaust"
Darcey Buerkle, Asst. Prof. of History, Smith College
April 4, 2005
"Landscapes of Subsistence: The Not-So-Good Life on the Land in the Rural South"
Richard Westmacott, Prof. Emeritus, School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia
April 11, 2005
"Hybrid Urban Landscapes"
Walter Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
April 18, 2005
"Landscape Stratigraphy: Poetics and Pragmatics"
Cheryl Barton , Landscape Architect, FASLA, FAAR
April 25, 2005
"Rods, Cones, and Purple Mountain Majesties"
Michael Marcotrigiano Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Botanic Garden, Smith College
Fall 2003 Schedule
September 8, 2003
"What Isn't Landscape Studies?"
Nina James, Mellon Fellow in Landscape Studies, Smith College
September 15, 2003
"Out of Ground Zero: Reflections on Rebuilding after 9/11"
Max Page, Asst. Prof. of Art History, University of Massachusetts
September 22, 2003
"More than mosquito cesspools: Wetlands’ Importance in the Landscape"
Paul Wetzel, PhD., Research Associate in Biological Sciences, Smith College
September 29, 2003
"The Landscape and the Law: The Visible Effects of Invisible Law"
Janet Milne, Assoc. Prof., Vermont Law School
October 6, 2003
"Inscribing the Oxbow: Local Landscape as Text"
Dean Flower, Prof. of English, Smith College
October 20, 2003
"The Wealth of Nature"
Domenico Grasso, Prof. of Engineering, Smith College
October 27, 2003
"Making Magic In the City: Restoring New York City's Parks and Gardens"
Lynden Miller, Public garden designer (Smith alumna), New York City
November 3, 2003
"Versailles: The Universe of Louis XIV"
John Moore, Assoc Prof of Art History, Smith College
November 10, 2003
"Quick, Cheap & Green"
Martha Schwartz, Principal of Martha Schwartz, Inc. Cambridge, Ma.
November 17, 2003
"Masterplan for Buffalo Bayou and Beyond: A Green Heart for Houston"
Harry Dodson , Landscape Architect, Ashfield, Ma.
November 24, 2003
"Site Citations: Grounding the Modern Landscape"
Beth Meyer, Assoc. Prof. of Landscape Architecture, U. Virginia
December 1, 2003
"Factionalism and Change in the Sierra Club: The Great Immigration Debate"
Leslie King, Asst. Prof. of Sociology, Smith College
December 8, 2003
"Nature, Culture, Sculpture"
Gary Orlinski, Site specific sculptor
Spring 2003 Schedule
January 27, 2003
"Introduction: What Isn’t Landscape Studies?"
Nina James, Mellon Fellow in Landscape Studies, Smith College.
February 3, 2003
"The Inescapable Art of Bridges"
Andrew Guswa, Asst. Prof. of Engineering, Smith College
February 10, 2003
"The Art of Nature/The Nature of Art: Gardens in Roman Pompeii"
Barbara Kellum, Prof.of Art, Smith College
February 17, 2003
"Masterplan forBuffalo Bayou and Beyond: A Green Heart for Houston"
Harry Dodson, Landscape Architect, Ashfield, Ma.
February 24, 2003
"Recapturing the Waterfront for Public Use"
Signe Nielsen. Landscape Architect, New York City
March 3, 2003
"Interpreting Cultural History in Forested Landscapes"
Tom Wessels, Prof. of Ecology, Dept of Environmental Studies, Antioch/New England Graduate School
March 10, 2003
"Inspiration from an Unlikely Source: J. B. Jackson and the Landscape of Women's Colleges"
Helen L. Horowitz, Sylvia D. Bauman Prof. of American Studies, Smith College
March 24, 2003
"Three Ways to Love a Wall: The Lyric Gardens of China"
Paula Varsano, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Language & Literature
March 31, 2003
"Four Views, Three of them through Glass, or How Much is that Vista in the Window?"
Sandy Isenstadt, Prof. of Art History, Yale University
April 7, 2003
"Pacing the Landscape: Slowing the City Down"
Randolph Hester, Prof. of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
April 14, 2003
"The Meditation Garden at Graceland: Rediscovering Lost Meaning in Landscape Design"
Alice Friedman, Prof. of Art and Director, Architecture Program, Wellesley College
April 21, 2003
"Between the Building and the Street: The Landscape Architect and Security Design"
Leonard Hopper, Head of Landscape Architecture, NYC Housing Authority
April 28, 2003
"From Ivory Tower to Family Kitchen: Contradictions and Opportunities – Lessons from Springfield"
Henry Lu, Assoc. Prof. , Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts
Spring 2002 Schedule
January 28, 2002
Introduction: What Isn't Landscape Studies?"
Nina James-Fowler, Lecturer in Art History, Smith College
February 4, 2002
"Interpreting Islamic Paradise: Myths of the Taj Mahal and New Interpretations of its Garden Context"
Anna Sloan, Mellon Fellow in Art History, Smith College
February 11, 2002
"Thoreau, Mary Oliver, and the Poetics of Landscape"
Dean Flower, Prof. of English, Smith College
February 18, 2002
"Landscape Architecture and the Design of Personal Space: The Problems Associated with Attempting to Design 6 Billion Healing Gardens"
Nicholas Dines, Prof. of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, UMass
February 25, 2002
"Watering the Garden: Hydrology, Water Resources, and Landscape"
Andrew Guswa, Asst. Prof. of Engineering, Smith College
March 4, 2002
"Landscape: Works on Land / Works on Mind"
Joseph Volpe, Prof. of Landscape Architecture, UMass
March 11, 2002
"The State of Landscape Architecture, World--Wide"
Julius Fabos, Emeritus Prof. of Landscape Planning, UMass
March 25, 2002
"Aural Oases – Musical Representation of Nature"
Christopher Krueger, Dept. of Music & Dance, UMass; and concert flutist
April 1, 2002
"Landscape Architecture – Safety, Security and other matters of the heart and mind"
Len Hopper, Head of Landscape Architecture, NYC Housing Authority; President of ASLA
April 8, 2002
"Shaping Plants that Shape the Landscape"
Michael Marcotrigiano, Prof. of Biology and Director of the Botanic Garden, Smith College
April 15, 2002
"Ruined Cottages: A Legacy of the Picturesque?"
Donna Landry, Prof. of English, Wayne State University
April 22, 2002
"Landscape and Architecture"
Anne Filson (Smith '91), Architect & Kate Orff, Landscape Architect
April 29, 2002
"The Landscape Architect as Best Supporting Actress: Collaboration, Stewardship, and Institutional Mission"
Shavaun Towers (Smith '71), Principal in Towers | Golde
Spring 2001 Schedule
January 29, 2001
"Common Ground: Bridge Building for Nations, Neighborhoods, and Families"
Nancy Denig, landscape architect practicing in Northampton, Smith alumna
February 5, 2001
"Utiopian Landscapes, from André Thouin to Thomas Jefferson"
Michel Conan, Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks
February 12, 2001
"Thomas Cole and the Beginnings of Landscape Painting in the U.S."
John Davis, Art History, Smith College
February 19, 2001
"Putting the Community in Community Design" Patricia McGirr, Dept.of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, U.Mass
February 26, 2001
"Landscape Scenarios: Back From the Future"
Jack Ahern, Chair of Dept, of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, U.Mass
March 5, 2001
"The Language of Landscape"
Anne Whiston Spirn, Department of Landscape Architecture and Planning, M.I.T.
March 12, 2001
"Making Time Visible:The Changing Urban Landscape of Boston's City Hall Plaza"
Gretchen Schneider, architect, Smith alumna, Art Dept., Smith College
March 26, 2001
"Breaking Ground: Five Decades in Landscape Architecture"
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect, Smith alumna
April 2, 2001
"Invasive Plants: When Encouraging Diversity Goes Bad"
Michael Marcotrigiano, Director of Smith Botanic Gardens, Biology, Smith College
April 9, 2001
"'Let Nature Never be Forgot': the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden"
Douglas Patey, English Dept. Smith College
April 16, 2001
"Nature in the City / the City in Nature"
Amy Brown, PhD candidate in planning and design, M.I.T. and Smith alumna
April 23, 2001
"Maverick Impossible: James Rose and the Modern American garden"
Dean Cardasis, Dept of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, U. Mass
April 30, 2001
"The Campus as a Teaching Landscape"
John Burk, Biology, Smith College
