<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><b>“Beyond Yosemite! A Three-part Guide to Reimagining the American Landscape”</b><o:p></o:p></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Jenny Price<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger, and<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">How are artists reimagining widespread and historically powerful iconic American landscape images? How do they challenge these images to envision nature not as an unpeopled refuge but as places we inhabit? I look at three kinds of art works: paintings and photographs that comment on well-known images; participatory public art events that act out new understandings of landscape; and a project, on the L.A. River (think Grease, Terminator 2), that reimagines a landscape by literally remaking it.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">April 20, 2012<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">2:30 - 4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Building E51-095<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.<span> </span>Contact <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a> for more information or to be placed on the mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div></body></html>