park pavilion
Opening Ceremony ~ Dinner & Orientation Thursday, June 19, 6pm - 9pm

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9am-12:30pm, June 20
Tour guides: Todd Thompson, Erin Argyilan
geological history
bus tour

DESCRIPTION: The lead author of the geological survey of the Calumet basin, Professor Todd Thompson of Indiana Univesrsity, and ...., Erin Argylian, long-time ....., will take us on a geological history tour of the parks region. We will decamp at various stops from our 55-seat tour bus, equipped with speaker system, tv monitors, bathroom, etc., on our way to our box lunch at the Miller Woods Douglas Center.
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ITINERARY:
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9 am pick-up, Indiana Dunes Visitors Center, address address address
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1st stop: Mt. Baldy, Michigan City
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2nd stop: Kimmel Education Center
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3rd stop: Century of Progress Homes
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4th stop: Miller Woods, address address address
Boxed lunch
Walk-and-Talk, Meet the Filmmakers
Miller woods

DESCRIPTION: The lead author of the geological survey of the Calumet basin, Professor Todd Thompson of Indiana Univesrsity, and ...., Erin Argylian, long-time ....., will take us on a geological history tour of the parks region. We will decamp at various stops from our 55-seat tour bus, equipped with speaker system, tv monitors, bathroom, etc., on our way to our box lunch at the Miller Woods Douglas Center.
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ITINERARY:
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9 am pick-up, Indiana Dunes Visitors Center, address address address
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1st stop: Mt. Baldy, Michigan City
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2nd stop: Kimmel Education Center
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3rd stop: Century of Progress Homes
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4th stop: Miller Woods, address address address
CONFERENCE
CENTER

PANEL 01
LANGUAGE
•Naming Rights & the Identity of Public Lands, _____ ______
•The Rhetoric of Industry,Economy & Ecology in Great Lakes History, ____________
PANEL 03
READING THE LAND
•The Parks, the Public, & the Art of Interpretation, ______
•Against Interpretation: Susan Sontag & Rachel Carson, Austin D. H....
•An Interpretive Primer for Parks, Protected Areas & Heritage Sites,
Brian Forist
PANEL 02
IMAGINATION
•Dream Cities, the Enchanted Forest, Century of Progress & the Utopian Imaginary, _____
•Land Interests, Investments, Passion, Partisans: Is Dialogue Possible? _____
PANEL 04
TRUTH & FICTION
•The Constitution of the Great Lakes Region in First Nations Story and Myth, Grad Student
•Great Lakes Novels, Brett A. Kaplan
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PANEL 05
BEYOND THE CITY
•Live streaming interview: David Mascriota’s Exurbia Now: The Calumet
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PANEL 06
NATURE & TIME
•Geological Time as Metaphysical Experience, ___________
•The "Natural" in Conservation Philosophy & Practice, Nishok G U
•Human Nature & the Climate Crisis, Jonah Branding
FOOD & FESTIVITIES
A Gift of Art: In Celebration of Zoran Killibarda
A Welcome to the Calumet Regional Archives
Harris Feinsod: “The Reciprocal Shoreline at Burns Harbor and Northwestern University”
PANEL 07
ART & ECOLOGY
•Musicology, Hauntology, & Regional History, Nathan Schmidt
•Digital Technology & Aesthetic Harm
•Memory, Identity, & Aesthetics of Place, Rudow
PANEL 09
BEYOND HUMAN
•Nonhuman Intelligences & the Grammar of Animacy, Chris Cobb
•Queering the Great Lakes, Brian Forist
PANEL 08
FIELD RESEARCH
& COMMUNITY
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PANEL 10
CRITICISM
•Reading Calumet History through the Prisms of Race & Gender
•Eco-criticism, Eco-feminism, Queer Ecology & Deep Ecology for the Great Lakes
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