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River Landscapes and the Iconography of Climate Change

September 17, 2015

Water makes visible the processes and threats of climate change. The rate and quality of rain and snow falling to the earth—the lack of water in drought, its overabundance in flood — the most iconic images include water dripping from melting glaciers, contributing to rising sea levels, and polar bears stranded and struggling with disappearing sea ice. Out of such extremes of weather and its...

Mojados Moving Against the Current

July 1, 2015

This part of our presentation explores the current of the North American Rio Grande as water flowing down river as well as a stream of processes that occur as the river is embedded in human culture. Paul Horgan’s Pulitzer Prize winning history of the Rio Grande documented centuries of Native American, Spanish, Mexican and Anglo-American people living alongside the river and entering into...