Featured Speaker: Steve Nagle, Director of Community Planning, East-West Gateway Council of Governments
What has been the historic ebb and flow of open space, land use and urban growth in the St. Louis region? How is the science of conservation planning helping to change public attitudes toward space and place? Join East-West Gateway Council of Governments Director of Community Planning, Steve Nagle, as he discusses land use evolution in metro St. Louis.
Presented in conjunction with the multimedia installation Kirkwood Roots on display at the Missouri History Museum through February 26, 2012.
To be held at: Missouri History Museum – Lee Auditorium
Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park
St. Louis, Missouri 63112
FREE and OPEN to ALL. Middle and high school students welcome.
Parking free in Museum lots or in Forest Park.
Featured Speaker: Rebecca Messbarger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Italian and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment. Join Rebecca Messbarger, Ph.D., associate professor of Italian and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and director of undergraduate studies at Washington University's department of Romance Languages and Literature, as she discusses her new book, The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini. Messbarger tells the story of Manzolini’s intellectual trajectory from provincial artist to internationally renowned anatomical wax modeler for the University of Bologna’s famous medical school.