Landscape and Sanity

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Gender Week: Keynote Address

Presenter:: Robert Pogue Harrison
Presenter Affiliation:: Stanford Univ.
Location:: 120 Clemens
Campus:: North Campus
Date:: 10/18/12
Time:: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Cost:: Free
Sponsor:: The Gender Institute, Humanities Institute and the Ecocritical Theory Reading Group
Contact:: Kari Winter (kwinter2@buffalo.edu)
Web site:: http://genderin.buffalo.edu/engenderingardens.shtml

Keynote Address by Robert Pogue Harrison, Landscape and Sanity Analyzing the relation between landscape architecture and sanity (or the restoration of sanity), Professor Harrison will reflect on both literary and "real" gardens and landscape architecture in relation to social and civic sanity. Robert Pogue Harrison, the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford University, is the author of many acclaimed books, including Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (1992), The Dominion of the Dead (2005), and, most recently, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition (2008). A reception will follow the talk. Free and open to the public.