This Land: Responding Across the Disciplines

Black man in hat bending over wheat fields

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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
Listen to “Novel Climate,” a podcast about literature, the environment, and people.


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