Hiddenscapes: Glaciers and Their Impact on the Iowa Landscape
Speaker:
Kathleen Woida and Barbara Haas
09 Feb 2009
9:00 AM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
State geologist Kathleen Woida and Iowa State creative writing professor Barbara Haas will explore the impact of glacial activity on the landscape of Iowa. While no one witnessed the extraordinary process that formed our contemporary Iowa landscape, it is possible to piece together parts of the dramatic geological events through examination of bedrock and sub-soil evidence. Through slide show imagery, scientific data, music, and creative writing, Haas and Woida will suggest and evoke the shape and movement of the hiddenscape of Iowa glaciology. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.
[b]Kathleen Woida[/b] is a State Geologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Services for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
[b]Barbara Haas[/b]’s short stories have been published in journals such as [i]Glimmer Train, The Antioch Review, Quarterly West, The Georgia Review, Epoch, American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, The Cimarron Review[/i] and others. Her work has appeared multiple times in [i]The Hudson Review, Virginia Quarterly Review[/i] and [i]The North American Review[/i]. A recipient of a National Endowment Literature fellowship, Barbara Haas is the author of a short story collection, [i]When California Was an Island[/i].
[b]More information and a complete schedule of events for the [url=http://engl.iastate.edu/event_details/5th-annual-symposium-on-wildness-wilderness-the-creative-imagination-1.ics]Fifth Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination[/url]