Madeleine gives us a glimpse of her interactions with Nature through recalling her time as a child loving horses, taking adventures as a college student, and reflecting on the gifts of her father from that she treasures. At the end of the episode, Madeleine&apos;s Great Pyrenees does a trick that causes her to speak to him.   If you want to learn more about The Artwork of the Congo and the complicated implications of the European Gaze try these links: Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part I by Debora L. Silvermanhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/662515?journalCode=wes The Trouble with “Heart of Darkness”Is Joseph Conrad’s novel a critique of colonialism, or an example of it? by David Denbyhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/11/06/the-trouble-with-heart-of-darkness  Governing economic interests: Interwar road construction in Belgian Congo by Lawrence Heindryckx https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/43202

Minisode: Dr. Ed E. Baptist (like John The) plus Highlights and Happenings

I'm Christy Hyman and I am a geographer who loves birds and the outdoors. I talk to academics about how they view nature and how much or how little they embrace it into their lives.