This Land: Responding Across the Disciplines
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On March 16-18, 2021 three renowned writers addressed the Georgetown community on the topic of “This Land.” Taken together, their talks address a renewed politics of the land and the role of literary art in building this politics. How can we ensure that this land endures to support future life and flourishing? How can this land be remade for dispossessed indigenous peoples as well as the dispossessors, for new immigrants as well as old, for nonhuman as well as human life, for you and me? We provided faculty across various fields with an optional assignment asking their students to respond to one or more of the talks using the tools, methods, and media characteristic of their scholarly or creative discipline. Below we share a selection of these responses.
Multimedia
Meghan Modafferi (MA English)
Course: Capstone
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Creative Writing Responses
Gavin Hickey
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Ode to Ndakinna: A Land Acknowledgment for New Castle, New Hampshire”
Julia Jackson
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“On the Morrison Slide Trail to Red Rocks”
Bennett Mansour
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Flight Over the Potomac”
Lea Marchl
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Lannan Center Assignment Draft”
Emily Mazur
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Decision to Change”
Eva McGehee
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
Lannan Response
Jon Pejo
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Be All Our Sins Remembered”
Hannah Sandlin
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Bull Creek: A Testimony To Trees”
Joanne Stirrup
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Loo k After This Land”
Annika Swanson
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Homage to Williams: Woman’s Best Friend”
Jenna Thomas
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Evergreen and Ever Changing”
Julianna Thompson
Course: Global Environmental Health
“The Connection Between Land, Society and Health”
Josephine Wu
Course: 20th Century American Nature Writing
“Of A Country I Can’t Remember”
Essays About the Land
Bianca Gonzales
Course: Literature, Art & Film of World War One
Paper Response to “An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams”
Benjamin Schwenk
Course: Literature, Art & Film of World War One
Paper: “The Earth and the World War One Soldier: A Loving Relationship or a Violent Conflict?”
Responses to Joy Harjo
Escadar Alemayehu
Course: Global Environmental Health
This is Our Land: Responding Across the Disciplines
Julia Benbenek
Course: Anthropology of Human Rights
Joy Harjo Response
Isabel Hwang
Course: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Joy Harjo Response
Responses to Terry Tempest Williams
Giulia Testa
Course: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Terry Tempest Williams Response
Michael Pari
Course: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Terry Tempest Williams Response
Seth Young
Course: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Terry Tempest Williams Response
Responses to Salman Rushdie
Sophia Dahmani
Course: Global Environmental Health
Salman Rushdie Response
Abeedah Diab
Course: Environmental History
Salman Rushdie Response
Sheil Patel
Course: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Salman Rushdie Response