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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

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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: 

  • 9 am pick-up, Indiana Dunes Visitors Center, address address address

  • 1st stop:  Mt. Baldy, Michigan City

  • 2nd stop:  Kimmel Education Center

  • 3rd stop:  Century of Progress Homes

  • 4th stop:  Miller Woods, address address address

Boxed lunch
Walk-and-Talk, Meet the Filmmakers

Miller woods

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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.

​

ITINERARY: 

  • 9 am pick-up, Indiana Dunes Visitors Center, address address address

  • 1st stop:  Mt. Baldy, Michigan City

  • 2nd stop:  Kimmel Education Center

  • 3rd stop:  Century of Progress Homes

  • 4th stop:  Miller Woods, address address address

CONFERENCE
CENTER

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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

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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