Ice Worlds: Climate Stories for a Changing World
Speaker: Patty Loew, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University and UW-Madison Extension
Tuesday, April 14 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Madison Club, Madison
Ice Worlds is a multi-faceted media project that focuses on climate change in North American Indigenous communities. It features a giant screen film that will be shown in theaters, television, online, and other informal settings in spring 2027. It also includes documentary shorts produced by Native American teenagers in four tribal communities. Project partners include the NSF-funded Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH); The Tribal Youth Media Workshop; Northwestern University; and a group of world-renowned museums. Project participant Dr. Patty Loew describes the ambitious project and shares excerpts from the main film and youth-produced climate stories.
About our Speaker: Patty Loew, Ph.D., is professor emerita in the Medill School of Journalism and inaugural director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University (retired). She also is professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension.
A citizen of Mashkiiziibii-- the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew is the author of four award-winning books and dozens of documentaries for commercial and public television. Loew writes extensively about treaty rights, sovereignty, and the role of Native media in communicating Indigenous world views. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of Wisconsin’s Martin Luther King Jr. Heritage Award. She was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasting Hall of Fame and Wisconsin’s Silver Circle by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Luncheon Choice:
- Slow Roasted Pork: Sauce Robert, Blistered Cherry Tomato, Almond Bread Crumb, Basil-Parsley “Salsa Verde”
- Vegetable lasagna: Béchamel, spinach, ricotta, mascarpone, pasta sheets, parmesan, side salad with seasonal dressing
Registration:
- $38.00 Retiree
- $40.00 Guests
Online registration closes on Wednesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm
