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5/21/2018 | 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | READING WATER: RENEWING HUMANITIES-FRESHWATER SCIENCE SYNERGIES FOR URGENT TIMES AND WICKED PROBLEMS | 320
READING WATER: RENEWING HUMANITIES-FRESHWATER SCIENCE SYNERGIES FOR URGENT TIMES AND WICKED PROBLEMS
This presentation considers the intersection between humanists and scientists in our institution’s new Freshwater Science and Sustainability program. The presenters are: a creative nonfiction writer and photographer (Heasley), a wetland ecologist (Schriever), and an ichthyologist (Bloom). Initially, we shared a regional focus on ecological changes and problems in the Great Lakes, albeit within our humanities and scientific realms. Later, a collection of lyric essays by Heasley demanded a deeper dialogue (e.g., on the evolutionary ecology of zebra mussels). We began exploring the historical fusion of natural science with art and literature, of scientists in the field with the poets, philosophers, and artists of their day; and how today’s students think it’s normal to isolate themselves within their respective training grounds. Here, we’ll illustrate our confluence (and perspectives) with a short round robin of creative readings and other firsthand examples of humanities-science unions. Our goals are to consider: (1) possibilities for mutual insight and transformation that still honor our autonomy; and (2) possibilities for boundary breaking across professional norms of communication and collaboration, via field settings and other shared places, and within the institutional environments of freshwater research and creative activities.
- Ecosystem
- Humanities
- Collaborations
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Lynne Heasley
(), Western Michigan University, lynne.heasley@wmich.edu;
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Devin Bloom
(), Western Michigan University, devin.bloom@wmich.edu;
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Tiffany Schriever
(), Western Michigan University, tiffany.schriever@wmich.edu;
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