“Be like water, my friend”: Reflections from the 2016 ASLE Graduate Symposium
By Mika Kennedy, PhD candidate in English, University of Michigan
As are so many stories of the environment (and those who study it), this one is about tributaries, and the rivers they build.
In 2015, my colleague Mary Renda and I and our graduate workshop, The Border Collective, put together a panel for ASLE’s 2015 Biennial Conference in Moscow, Idaho. We hadn’t even touched back down in Michigan before we pitched each other a wild idea: What if we hosted an off-year symposium specifically geared ...