Join leading researchers, artists, and scholars at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe for The Tahoe Series. This collection of events, performances, lectures, and seminars welcomes the community to the University's Wayne L. Prim Campus in Incline Village to be enlightened and inspired.
The Tahoe Series: Faculty Showcase features professors across disciplines presenting as experts on new topics in their fields of study.
Wednesday, July 10, 6:00 p.m.
Lake Tahoe: A Rephotographic History offers the most comprehensive view of the lake and its environment in a compelling visual compendium. Professor of Photography Peter Goin and his research team spent more than two decades researching original images made in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and they rephotographed selected historic views between 2009 and 2021. This is a visual journey of a changing and transformed landscape that inherently embraces an alpine ideal of nature; each pair of photographs reflects two moments in time in a historical narrative of sight and words. This is the largest photographic survey of Lake Tahoe, and it will be the definitive survey for many years to come.
Thursday, August 15, 6:00 p.m.
Chris Lanier, the and Teaching Professor of Digital Art at UNR at Lake Tahoe, will share work that explores the porous interface between human presence and the "natural" world. This includes his offbeat digital photography, and videos created in collaboration with director/choreographer Kristin Heavey, working with dancers and drones in the outdoor landscape. The common thread in this work is the desire to blur the distinctions between the self and the world – guided by the belief that who we are, and where we are, are fundamentally entangled categories. Along the way, he'll discuss the opportunities and ironies inherent in using digital technologies to record ephemeral and exploratory analog experiences.
June Saraceno, Author and Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program
Legacy of James E. Church’s snow science research preserved with Dr. Carlos Ramirez-Reyes
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Meeting the Tides of Life Through the Practice of Poetry
Monster Fish with Zeb Hogan