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Public lecture by Holly Dressel, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (AHLP). The talk keynotes the traditional goals of heritage landscape preservation into a global environmental context. When the view of Lijiang's contorted peaks or the Three Gorges of the Yangzte is invisible because of a brown cloud of Asian air pollution; when Europe's cloistered gardens melt and shrivel in acidic rain; when the soft, rural landscapes that form the jewelled setting of the world's great cities are transformed into asphalt sprawl; and when the covered bridges and byways of rural North America are industrialized to produce monocultures of identical plants or confined animals, the entire idea of what an historic landscape is and how it might be preserved has to be profoundly reinvented. Holly Dressel, trained in France as a medieval art historian with an emphasis on the history of architecture and architectural spaces, argues that the human altered landscapes are the primary bridge between the entire span of human culture across the globe and the shared natural systems upon which all life depends. In this lecture she will draw the good news from current legislation protecting vast agricultural areas across Europe and from little-known historical landscapes in India and South America that combine culture and aesthetics with a profoundly ecological understanding of water and land use. Free, everyone welcome. Space is limited so get there early and visit the museum. Free tickets to the lecture will be available between 5 and 6 p.m. Please come by foot or public transit as there will be no parking on campus.