How can communities sustain Lake Superior in a time of rapid
political and environmental change? Nancy Langston explores
how water literacy can foster a sense of place and a renewed
commitment to the greatest of the Great Lakes.
Nancy Langston is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental
History at Michigan Technological University. Author of five books on
environmental history, including two on Lake Superior watersheds, her
work fuses storytelling, visual arts and environmental analysis to grapple
with the unsettling contradictions of climate change in the north. She
currently focuses on linocut printmaking, local conservation work and
research on reindeer conservation.
The views and opinions expressed by the speaker/event do not necessarily represent the policies or position of the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
This speaker series is funded by the Selma Swanstrom Geography Lecture Fund.
For more information, visit uwsuper.edu/NancyLangston.