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Ethnic Gardens: Sustaining a Cultural Identity through Food - Patricia Klindienst

Date/Time:Thursday, 16 Oct 2008 at 8:00 pm
Location:Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens
URL:http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ceah/events.htm
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Phone:515-294-9934
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Patricia Klindienst is the author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, winner of the 2006 American Book Award. She has also published essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, and ethnic cleansing. Klindienst has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," originally published in the Stanford Literature Review, and "Philomela's Loom," the epilogue to Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Cosponsored By:
  • Ames Public Library
  • Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Reiman Gardens
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)