INSIDEPANEL

Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost, Task Force for Interdisciplinary Research Enhancement of Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research, Colleges of Agriculture, Applied

Sciences and Arts - Liberal Arts, Law, Mass Communication and Media Arts, and Science, Morris Library, Big Muddy Film Festival, Center for Ecology, Communicating

Change Collective, Daily Egyptian, Environmental Research & Policy Program, Graduate Professional & Student Council, Lux, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, South of 64

Photojournalism Project, Sustainability Council & Green Fund, SIU Press, WSIU Radio & TV

SIU PARTNERSCarbondale Community Arts - Carbondale Main Street - Carbondale Township’s Human Relations & Sustainability Commissions - Connect SI - Green Earth -

Keep Carbondale Beautiful - Nonviolent Carbondale - Winter Farmer’s Market

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Shifting from last year’s programs on Antarctica, Imagining Geographies will focus for the foreseeable future on Southern Illinois, with the 2013 series, titled: Land, Lives, and Arts of Southern Illinois.

In doing so, we seek to advance investigations and discussions of past histories and present issues, to engage our imaginations in thinking about and expressing what our future lives might be like in this region, as well as to advance initiatives that transform imagining into action.

To this end, many 2013 events are planned as initial efforts in what we hope will evolve into ongoing collaborative efforts involving scholars, artists, students, members of community agencies and organizations, and other residents of Southern Illinois; and, inspire new partners to join us in advancing these efforts.

We hope these events and initiatives will attract and engage participants, on- and off-campus, to learn about, experience, reflect on, and re-connect with living in Southern Illinois; as well as enable us to imagine and become engaged in transforming our lives here, individually and collectively.

OUR MISSIONImagining Geographies is a multi-year, university and region-wide initiative dedicated to advancing investigations, knowledge creation and mobilization, discussion and multiple forms of expression related to space, place, culture, identity, and related themes.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION: • Visit our website: www.imagining.siu.edu• Become a friend of Imagining Geographies on Facebook. • Obtain a copy of our 16-page informative supplement,

or read it online on our website.• Contact the initiative’s facilitator: Peter Lemish, Ph.D

(Journalism) at peterlemish@siu.edu.

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ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2013 SPRING SERIES: LAND, LIVES, AND ARTS

IMAGINING GEOGRAPHIES SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

FEBRUARY 28POLICY INITIATIVE • 7 p.m. School of Law, Room 204 GREENING CARBONDALE VIA A FOOD FOREST Town Hall-style discussion of proposal to develop Carbondale as a food forest.

GREETINGS: Jessica Bradshaw (Chair, Carbondale Human Relations Commission), Ben Wodika (Chair, Carbondale Sustainability Commission); Makayla Bonney (Chair, SIU Sustainability Commission).

PRESENTATIONS by Carbondale residents: Wayne Weiseman (The Permaculture Project); Orlan Mays (Mustard Seed Sowers Gardens).

DISCUSSANTS: Craig Anz (Vice-President, Carbondale Main Street Board & Associate Professor, Architecture, SIU); Stephanie Eichholz (Director, Green Earth); Sarah Heyer (Director, Keep Carbondale Beautiful); Kathy Renfro (Director, Carbondale Park District).

OPEN DISCUSSION

MARCH 5-MAY 6EXHIBITRotunda, Morris LibraryThe Southern Extent: Maps of Southern Illinois. Curator – Assistant Professor Sarah Lewison (Radio, Television, and Digital Media), with Melissa Hubbard (Special Collections, Morris Library).

“This Land is Your Land”: Time and Narrative in the Discourse of Landscape Imagery. Film installation of Associate Professor William Rowley (Cinema & Photography).

MARCH 5INAUGURAL EVENT • 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.Guyon Auditorium, Morris LibraryMODERATOR: Professor Dafna Lemish, Interim Dean, College of Mass Communication & Media Arts.

GREETINGS: Chancellor Rita Cheng; Vice Chancellor for Research John Koropchak.

KEYNOTE LECTURE: LAND MATTERS: LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY, CULTURE, & IDENTITY. Professor Liz Wells (University of Portsmouth).

RECEPTION: Morris Library Rotunda.

PANELISTS: Professor Walter Metz (Cinema & Photography), Associate Professor Jan Roddy (Cinema & Photography), Assistant

Professor Sarah Lewison (Radio, Television, and Digital Media), Mary McCorvie, (Manager, Heritage Program, Shawnee National Forest). Responses by Professor Wells. Moderator, Associate Professor Jay Needham (Radio, Television, and Digital Media).

MARCH 22-25FIELD TRIPS, LECTURE, & WORKSHOP REGION FROM BELOWCOMPASS, a group of artists, writers, and environmentalists living in greater Midwest, work together to investigate and re-imagine a region. As IG’s 2013 resident scholars, COMPASS will present a lecture, workshop, and lead a two-day “drift”, together with SIU and community members, as they engage in “cartography with our feet”. “Region from Below” addresses such theoretical notions as: How does land itself express itself as a region? How do less powerful subjects in a region make themselves visible and audible?

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MARCH 30 FIELD TRIPCONFLUENCE: CRAB ORCHARDFilmmaker and Assistant Professor Sarah Kanouse (Iowa), the John Michael Film Awards winner at the 2013 Big Muddy Film Festival, will lead a master class and guided tour of the Crab Orchard area, along with a screening and discussion of her award winning film – Around Crab Orchard.

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APRIL 6FIELD TRIPSOUNDS LIKE FORESTWalks in the Shawnee National Forest in collaboration with SIU Press launch of new book by Larry & Donna Mahan—20 Day Trips in and around Southern Illinois. Facilitators of the sound walk- David Armstrong, producer of Sounds Like Radio (WSIU), Professor Phylis Johnson (Radio, Television, and Digital Media), and Associate Professor Jay Needham (Radio, Television, & Digital Media); together with the book’s authors - Larry & Donna Mahan.

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APRIL 13 PROJECT ORGANIZING DAY •2 – 5 p.m.Thomas Elementary School1025 N. Wall St., CarbondaleVOICES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS PROJECT Initiative #1 - Building an Archive of Carbondale’s African-American community. Open discussion of proposal to develop an archival project of Carbondale’s African-American community as collaborative effort. Viewing and discussion of 778 Bullets by filmmaker and Assistant Professor Angela Aguayo (Cinema & Photography), as example of an archival project.

APRIL 20FIELD TRIPGuyon Auditorium, Morris LibraryCONFLUENCE: PRAIRIE RESTORATION Itinerary - SIU, Carbondale, Fults Hill Prairie State Natural Area. Guides: Associate Professor Sara Baer (Plant Biology) & Ben Wodika (Plant Biology), Restoration Club.

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APRIL 22SIU RESEARCH COMMUNITY MEETINGLawson Hall 204ON DEVELOPING CONFLUENCE/INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AT SIUOPENING REMARKS & Facilitation: Vice Chancellor for Research, John Koropchak.

Collaboration of Center for Ecology, Imagining Geographies, and the Task Force on Interdisciplinary Research Enhancement.

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APRIL 27FIELD TRIP •9 a.m.Parking lot, Carbondale City HallGREENING CARBONDALE Morning: Tour: Food Forest components in different stages of development, led by Wayne Weiseman.

Lunch

2 p.m. Workshop – Spring gardens, Wayne Weiseman. Location to be announced.

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