Upcoming Events

April 2021

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: C.L. Bohannon

Lecture/Readings

Join us for the LAEP Speaker Series! On select Fridays throughout the semester, guest speakers from varying backgrounds share their experience and expertise, followed by a Q&A with students.

Lecture Title: Notes on Community Engagement, Leadership, and Social Change

Dr. C.L. Bohannon is the Associate Director of the School of Architecture + Design, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture and Faculty Principal of the Leadership and Social Change Residential College at Virginia Tech. Dr. Bohannon’s research focuses on the relationship between community engagement and design education, primarily through design for social and environmental justice. Through his research, Dr. Bohannon works in the landscape context of community history and identity, social/environmental (in)justice, and community learning. His research has led to contributions to the theorization and application of community engagement in design education. Dr. Bohannon teaches courses on community-engaged design research, design research methods, contemporary research topics in landscape architecture, and seeing, understanding & representing landscapes.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Apr

Scholars for Anti-Racist Fellowship in Education:Elishia Durrett-Johnson

Lecture/Readings

Elishia Durrett-Johnson, Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in the State of Kentucky. In her talk titled "Healing Emotional Abuse & Racial Trauma: A Collective Effort", Elishia will share her expertise in broaching and/or continuing conversations necessary for cultural change, awareness & challenge ideologies through collective exploration, and invite us into a conversation about diversity & inclusion and anti-racism. We're excited to share that Devon Isaacs, Ph.D. Student in the Utah State Psychology Department, will moderate the talk.

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Apr

Scholars for Anti-Racist Fellowship in Education: Dr. Terrell Morton

Lecture/Readings

Dr. Terrell Morton, Assistant Professor of Identity and Justice in STEM Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In his talk titled "Deprogramming Whiteness to Advance Liberation: A Critical Examination of the “Self” in Social Justice Endeavors", Dr. Morton will share his expertise in identity and justice, and invite us into a conversation about diversity & inclusion and anti-racism. We're excited to share that Shouqing Si, Ph.D. student in School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University, will moderate the talk.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series - Budge Lecture: Bill Johnson

Lecture/Readings

Join us for the LAEP Speaker Series! On select Fridays throughout the semester, guest speakers from varying backgrounds share their experience and expertise, followed by a Q&A with students.

William Johnson studied landscape architecture at Michigan State University and graduated in 1953. Following his military service, he completed an M.L.A. at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Returning to the Midwest to practice, Johnson formed Johnson, Johnson and Roy (JJR) in 1961, a partnership with his brother Carl and friend Clarence Roy. The search for fitness, harmony, and community involvement became William Johnson’s core design philosophy and a trademark of JJR’s work. Throughout his career, Johnson blended practice with his commitment to education. A professor of landscape architecture beginning in 1958, he served as dean of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan from 1975 to 1983, and became Professor Emeritus in 1988. Johnson’s practice focused on campus, resort, and community planning, as well as parks and recreation projects. He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1973 and awarded the ASLA Medal in 1986.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

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