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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Living and Dying in the Vicinity of Amherst Monday, April 10, 2017 This talk draws from a larger “bioregional biography.” Surveying roughly fifty years and fifty square miles in the middle of Massachusetts in the mid-nineteenth-century, In the Vicinity of Amherst draws on environmental history, scientific studies past and present, geography, literature, and the arts, to explore how lives—plant, animal, and human—are connected across time through a shared environmental context. While Emily Dickinson provides the occasion for such close scrutiny of a particular time and place, it’s not Dickinson only I’m seeking here: rather, an understanding of how any text converses with its context. The talk will also feature fossils, paintings of mushrooms,mica, and shale.Gillian Osborne is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and co-editor of a collection of critical essays, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press, on modern andcontemporary ecopoetics. Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Literature Program Contact: Alex Benson. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-6822 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://inside.bard.edu/campus/services/career/calendar/