{"id":35603,"date":"2024-08-31T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/?p=35603"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:33:29","slug":"conversation-with-wes-jackson-and-friends-set-for-sept-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/about\/news\/conversation-with-wes-jackson-and-friends-set-for-sept-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with Wes Jackson and Friends Set for Sept. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block rtf align style-default align-default position-right bg-color-default\">\n\t<div class=\"block-wrap\">\n\t\t<div class=\"rtf-content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The public is invited to listen in on \u201cA Prairie Conversation\u201d with Wes Jackson and friends Donald Worster and Aleksandra Jaeschke from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Pioneer Hall 325 on the campus of Kansas Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The topic of the conversation will be working with nature as a collaborator and the positive effects of developing perennial agriculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presentations by Worster and Jaeschke will be followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Jackson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worster is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History at the University of Kansas and is considered a founder of American environmental history. He is a recipient of the Bancroft Prize for\u00a0\u201cDust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s\u201d and a recipient of the National Outdoor Book Award, Spur Award and\u00a0Byron Caldwell Smith Award for \u201cA River Running West.\u201d He has written biographies of John Wesley Powell and John Muir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaeschke is an architect and an associate professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the winner of the Harvard Graduate School of Design\u2019s 2019\u00a0Wheelwright Prize. Born and raised in Poland, she holds a Doctor of Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and an AA Diploma\u00a0from the Architectural Association in London.\u00a0\u00a0A book based on her doctoral dissertation, entitled\u00a0<em>The Greening of America\u2019s Building Codes: Promises and Paradoxes<\/em>, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson, a 1958 graduate of Kansas Wesleyan and a former faculty member, is the co-founder and former president of The Land Institute in Salina. The Land Institute is a science-based research organization working to develop an alternative to destructive agricultural practices. Its work is dedicated to advancing perennial grain crops, such as Kernza, and polyculture farming solutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This \u201cA Prairie Conversation\u201d event is sponsored by Jackson and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/crh\/\">Community Resilience Hub<\/a> at Kansas Wesleyan and <a href=\"https:\/\/landinstitute.org\">The Land Institute<\/a>, with funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resiliencestudiesconsortium.com\">Resilience Studies Consortium<\/a>. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Release by Jean Kozubowski<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-crh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conversation with Wes Jackson and Friends Set for Sept. 11 - Kansas Wesleyan University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The public is invited to listen in on \u201cA Prairie Conversation\u201d, which will talk about working with nature as a collaborator.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/about\/news\/conversation-with-wes-jackson-and-friends-set-for-sept-11\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conversation with Wes Jackson and Friends Set for Sept. 11 - 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