Land of Good Men with Professor Lucas Bessire

About the lecture:

How do upheavals of masculinity, democracy, and ecology converge on the American Great Plains? What kind of scholarly engagements can contribute to reclaiming a shared reality at this pivotal historical moment? To explore how these questions relate to genres of exposition, this talk excavates the emotional and environmental terrain of the author’s family homestead located along western Oklahoma’s Hundredth Meridian, where tensions of holding on and letting go accrete over generations and point the way to wider reckonings with the contemporary.