Public Lecture: Democracy and Landscape

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Histories that matter to our Futures

In this lecture Thaïsa Way will discuss how landscape studies can be expanded to engage in often neglected histories of land-based practices and the communities and places they create. She will present the Mellon Initiative in Democracy and Landscape Studies, which brings scholars into community. The lecture shows how these collaborative efforts pursue research on spatial histories and narratives that engage with questions of how place and land/water have intersected with histories of race, gender, sovereignty, migration, and design among other forces.

The lecture is open to the public and no registration is required. All are welcome.

Thaïsa Way

Thaïsa Way is an urban landscape historian and director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University. She is currently PI of the initiative “Democracy and Landscape: Race, identity and difference”.