Program Details
This panel discussion moderated by conservation biologist Curt Meine will bring together an anthropologist, ecological artist, and mycologist. Panelists and additional program details are forthcoming.
Location
Park Hall
Main Floor Sanctuary
307 Polk Street
Sauk City, WI 53583
- Panel discussion
- Inside
Contributors
Nance Klehm (she/her); Curt Meine, moderator (he/him); Anand Pandian (he/him); Aishwarya Veerabahu (she/her)
https://nanceklehm.earth/, https://curtmeine.com/, https://anand.studio/, https://aishwaryav.org/
Nance Klehm’s work and being lies at the complex intersections of the theory and practice of land politics and soil health. Her work as a communicator, translator, curator, translator, provocateur, and medium is internationally recognized in communities of practice ranging from publishing to fine art, environmental justice activism to philosophy, growing and restoration to radio. She lives her work—she writes, facilitates, lectures, teaches, consults, makes, and does. She marries these sets of practice under two organizing structures: Social Ecologies, L3C www.socialecologies.net and www.nanceklehm.earth.
Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian, and writer. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and with the Chicago-based Center for Humans and Nature. He is also a Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo and Associate Adjunct Professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, and A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times. Anand also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on the global fight to build a zero waste future, anchored in stories from the United States, India, Ghana, and Spain.
Aishwarya Veerabahu is a 3rd year PhD student in Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she studies the ecological impacts, evolutionary history, and human dimensions of invasive Golden Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus). She earned her B.S. in Biology from UC Riverside, surrounded by the chaparral hills of Southern California that first inspired her love for plants. After graduating, she moved to the forests of the Adirondacks, where she discovered the wild world of fungi. Her current work focuses on understanding how cultivated golden oyster mushrooms have adapted and spread in natural environments. She is especially interested in collaborating with community scientists to map and collect wild specimens and to explore how invasion, cultivation, and evolution intersect.