CONTACT:
Geri Weinstein-Breunig
1728 Hammond Rd., Edgerton, WI 53534
608-877-1540 (work)
geri at uwm.edu
Geri Weinstein-Breunig will negotiate costs with you. Contact her directly to make arrangements. REGION:
Rock County, Southern WisconsinHUMANITIES EXPERTISE:
Cultural Geography
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GERI WEINSTEIN-BREUNIG
Diane Lichtenstein is Professor of English at Beloit College. She also teaches Women’s and Gender Studies courses regularly. She received her BA from Brown University and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She has written and lectured about numerous nineteenth and twentieth-century American women writers including Emma Lazarus, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Edna Ferber, and Fannie Hurst. She has published a book focused on nineteenth-century American Jewish women writers.
Public Presentations:
Integrating social, cultural, economic, historical and environmental values of a river: A cultural geographical approach.
A river, as a ‘member’ of a community, may hold ideas of the person we want to be, the community we want to live in, and the relationship we want to have with nature. Geri Weinstein-Breunig shares ways for those who work or live in a community to hear the voice of the river in shaping a vision for the community’s future.
There are two variations for how this program can be done: 1) A presentation illustrating how we may think and talk of a river in ways that respect and take advantage of diverse interests and backgrounds. The outcome is a different way to talk about the river and the long-term relationship of the community with it. 2) A series of 2 or 3 community forums/discussions in which Weinstein-Breunig provides an overview of the range of river issues which citizens in various Wisconsin communities encounter and attempt to resolve. Using a cultural geography perspective, she will show how a community may use their river to galvanize diverse interests to talk about the social, cultural, economic, and environmental issues affecting the community.
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