San Diego River

San Diego State University (CA)

Pacific Ocean off coast of San Diego (April 2024, photos by G.E.H.).

EVENT: "Listening to (& with) Water: Blue Humanities & Life in the Tar Seeps"

LOCATION: San Diego State University

DATE: April 11, 2024 (talk: 12:00-1:30 p.m.) and April 12, 2024 (7:00 p.m. concert at Balboa Theatre)

SPEAKER: Gretchen E. Henderson

QUESTION: How do you listen to and with water?

Flier from San Diego State University:

Thursday, April 11, 2024 @ SDSU: Listening to Water: Blue Humanities & Life in the Tar Seeps

CONCERT: Friday, April 12 @ Balboa Theatre, San Diego, CA, "Medusa" ("Don't Look Away") with composer Jocelyn Hagen, Metropolitan Opera soprano Susanna Phillips, & San Diego University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Shannon Kitelinger.

Intersectional Resources

Learn more about the new Environmental Humanities Lab at San Diego State University.
To learn more about San Diego's watersheds, check out Think Blue San Diego.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to: professor of English Diana Leong, co-director of Environmental Humanities Lab; colleagues in Department of English and Comparative Literature; and professor of music and director of bands, Shannon Kitelinger, and musicians in the Wind Ensemble, San Diego State University.

Land Acknowledgement (from San Diego State University): "We stand upon a land that carries the footsteps of millennia of Kumeyaay people. They are a people whose traditional lifeways intertwine with a worldview of earth and sky in a community of living beings. This land is part of a relationship that has nourished, healed, protected and embraced the Kumeyaay people to the present day. It is part of a world view founded in the harmony of the cycles of the sky and balance in the forces of life. For the Kumeyaay, red and black represent the balance of those forces that provide for harmony within our bodies as well as the world around us. As students, faculty, staff and alumni of San Diego State University we acknowledge this legacy from the Kumeyaay. We promote this balance in life as we pursue our goals of knowledge and understanding. We find inspiration in the Kumeyaay spirit to open our minds and hearts. It is the legacy of the red and black. It is the land of the Kumeyaay. Eyay e’Hunn My heart is good." Read more here with listening:

From Bird Singers and San Diego State University: