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In
Honor of the 40th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act
The Iowa
Project on Place Studies at The University of Iowa and
The
Agrestal Fund of The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation present
“A
Celebration of Wild Iowa”
A Symposium and Conversation
on What the Wild in Iowa Is and Can Be
Thursday, October 7, 2004
2:30
p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
South
Room, Iowa Memorial Union, The University of Iowa
2:30-2:45 -- Welcome and Opening Remarks (Thomas Dean and Roger Gipple)
2:45-3:00 -- Brief Discussion of Visual Art by Mark Müller, Larry Mendenhall, and Elizabeth Hill
(Elizabeth Hill will speak)
3:00-4:45
-- A
Panel-led Discussion featuring Elizabeth Hill (author of Hiking Iowa),
Cornelia F. Mutel (University of Iowa), Robert Sayre (University of
Iowa, Johnson County Heritage Trust), and Robert Sessions (Kirkwood
Community College)
5:00-6:00 -- Dinner (North Room)
6:00-8:00 -- Music
by Dave Moore and A
Reading by Steve Semken, from his new book The Great Blues (North
Room)
8:30-10:00 --
America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie, A Film with
Discussion by producer Daryl Smith (University of Northern Iowa)
(Terrace Room) Link to
information on the film.
Registration (required) is $20 and includes a vegetarian buffet dinner
(deadline October 1) Film screening is open to the public.
Registration form available at www.uiowa.edu/~ipops/wildiowaregistration or contact Thomas
Dean, The University of Iowa, (319)335-1995,
thomas-k-dean@uiowa.edu.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University
of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who
requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program,
please contact Thomas Dean in advance at (319)335-1995
Registration form
Information/poster (plain text) (Please feel free to duplicate, post,
and distribute to people and organizations who would be interested.)
Poster
(PDF file) (Please feel free to duplicate, post, and distribute to
people and organizations who would be interested.)
News release (9-24-04)
Listen to a program
about "A Celebration of Wild Iowa" and Agrestal on WSUI/WOI's "Talk of
Iowa," September 28, 2004
News release on "America's Lost Landscape" film (10-4-04)
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