Thinking about submitting an abstract to the Celebration of Student Scholarship? Not sure whether your project counts as research? Wondering what to expect from this experience? Unsure where to begin in creating a research poster?
This Q&A session is your opportunity to get answers to these and any other questions pertaining to the event. Join us in person at 4pm in Jamrich 1315 or via zoom.
Thinking about submitting an abstract to the Celebration of Student Scholarship? Not sure whether your project counts as research. Wondering what to expect from this experience? Unsure where to begin in creating a research poster?
This Q&A session is your opportunity to get answers to these and any other questions pertaining to the event. Join us in person at 4pm in Jamrich 1315 or via zoom.
Last year, February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Three scholars will share their perspectives on this war. Steven Nystrom will provide an update on the status of this war. Petra Hendrickson will discuss human rights violations. Robert Kulisheck will discuss the war in the context of broader international relations.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is the author of the award-winning crime thriller novel Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020). The novel was a national bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a Best Book of the year by NPR, Amazon Best Book of 2020/Best Mystery and Thriller of the year, and Best Book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Guardian, and other magazines. Weiden was named by the New York Times as one of “the most critically acclaimed young novelists working now.” Winter Counts was called a “once-in-a-generation thriller” by the Los Angeles Times, a “worthy addition to the burgeoning canon of indigenous literature” by Library Journal, and one of the “best crime novels of all time” by Parade magazine. Winter Counts was also selected as CrimeReads Best Noir Fiction, Best Debut, and Notable Selection for Best Crime Novel.
Weiden has short stories appearing or forthcoming in the anthologies The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022, Denver Noir, Midnight Hour, This Time for Sure, Never Whistle at Night, and The Perfect Crime. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Shenandoah, and Writer’s Digest. He’s the series editor of Native Edge, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press specializing in Indigenous literature. Weiden received the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship and is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee, and Tin House.
Weiden received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He’s professor of Native American studies and Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver and serves on the faculty of the Cedar Crest Pan-European MFA Program and also the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University.
A Relational Approach to the Environmental Humanities
How can literature and other forms of culture impact ecological systems? This talk will present a relational approach to the environmental humanities that seeks to reshape our environmental relationships by tracing the wider systemic effects of various forms of cultural engagement. It will illustrate this approach by describing how nineteenth-century environmental authors like William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir became associated with specific landscapes in ways that shaped the modern significance of nature and the emergence and development of the environmental movement.
Scott Hess is Professor of English and Environmental Sustainability at Earlham College. He currently serves as Conference Chair on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Sustainability Hub for Innovation and Environment (SHINE)