This interdisciplinary panel discussion brings together experts from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Missouri Botanical Garden and Saint Louis University to explore how nature, migration and memory shape the worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies.” Through perspectives from art history, botany, anthropology and literature, the conversation reveals how landscapes—both real and imagined—become central to stories of identity, belonging and healing.
The panel includes:
Amy Cooper, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology at Saint Louis University
Wendy Applequist, Ph.D., ethnobiologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Heather Alexis Smith, assistant curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Joya Uraizee, Ph.D., professor of English at Saint Louis University.
The panel will be moderated by Edward Ibur, executive director of the St. Louis Literary Award.
The event is scheduled for noon on Thursday, March 26, at the Missouri Botanical Garden and via livestream. Admission is free.
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