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ICA Miami’s Knight Foundation Art + Research Center Swamp Symposium featured a set of presentations and critical dialogues around the Everglades as a site of knowledge. The symposium centered on indigenous ways of knowing as well as eco-critical engagements with the Everglades’ ecologies, considering both human and non-human relations to the land. Speakers were invited to present on critical histories of the Everglades, its ecological forms, particularities of its biodiversity, and questions of fragility and restoration, among other topics.
About Dr. Laura Ogden
Laura A. Ogden is an environmental anthropologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her work explores the politics of environmental change and conservation, contributing to theoretical discussions in political ecology and environmental anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic research in the Florida Everglades, with urban communities in the United States, and is currently working on a long-term project in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Her books include Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades (2011) and Loss and Wonder at the World’s End (2021). She has served as President of the Anthropology and Environment Society, a section of the American Anthropological Society.
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ICA Miami’s Knight Foundation Art + Research Center Swamp Symposium featured a set of presentations and critical dialogues around the Everglades as a site of knowledge. The symposium centered on indigenous ways of knowing as well as eco-critical engagements with the Everglades’ ecologies, considering both human and non-human relations to the land. Speakers were invited to present on critical histories of the Everglades, its ecological forms, particularities of its biodiversity, and questions of fragility and restoration, among other topics.
About Dr. Laura Ogden
Laura A. Ogden is an environmental anthropologist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her work explores the politics of environmental change and conservation, contributing to theoretical discussions in political ecology and environmental anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic research in the Florida Everglades, with urban communities in the United States, and is currently working on a long-term project in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Her books include Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades (2011) and Loss and Wonder at the World’s End (2021). She has served as President of the Anthropology and Environment Society, a section of the American Anthropological Society.
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