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rare EVENT: Creative Solutions to Barn Swallow Decline, an Arts and Science Virtual Panel

Held Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 6 pm Barn swallows are a parallel species to humans—they often increase in numbers as people do. Yet in the last 40 years, the species has seen a 76% decline in Canada. From the Bible to Pliny to Shakespeare, swallows have been associated with the oncoming of spring, freedom, and the love of and fidelity to home. Join us as we host artists, scientists and others who have been inspired by the barn swallow for a discussion on this species' decline and how community science, artistic methods, and critical design complement conservation efforts. Speakers: Jennifer Clary-Lemon Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature @University of Waterloo Jennifer Clary-Lemon is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She studies how humans and nonhumans might best communicate in a time of increased species loss. As part of her work, she launched Hirondelusia: A Creative Turn toward Species at Risk, an arts-based research creation project that promotes reflection on barn swallows as a species at risk. She is the author of Planting the Anthropocene, and has a new book on species at risk coming out called Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species, in which the barn swallow guest stars. Dr. Marcel O'Gorman University Research Chair and Founding Director of the Critical Media Lab @University of Waterloo Dr. Marcel O’Gorman is a University Research Chair and Founding Director of the Critical Media Lab (CML) at the University of Waterloo, where he leads collaborative projects and workshops in critical design and the philosophy of technology. The CML is located inside the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, where its role is to disseminate a philosophy of “tech for good.” Murry Burgess Associate Wildlife Biologist & Urban Ecologist @Author Murry Burgess is an Associate Wildlife Biologist® and Urban Ecologist. She obtained her BS in Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture from Mississippi State. She is currently a PhD student in Wildlife and Conservation Biology at North Carolina State. Murry studies the effects of artificial light at night (aka, light pollution) on Barn Swallow chick health and development. Murry is also a children’s author with Little, Brown Publishers. Her first book, Sparrow Learns Birds, comes out in 2022. Mara Silver Founder @Swallow Conservation Mara Silver has been working on swallow conservation projects for the past 30 years, primarily Cliff and Barn Swallow projects. The focus of her work has been on developing relatively simple management techniques to attract and enhance breeding success at Cliff and Barn Swallow nesting sites and to attract these species to previously-unused sites. Mara holds an M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she researched characteristics of river banks used by nesting Bank Swallows. In 2017 she founded Swallow Conservation, a Western Massachusetts-based non-profit organization whose goal is to conserve and protect swallows that breed in northeastern North America. See: www.swallowconservation.org