Conversations in Place 2015 resumes at Rancho Los Alamitos with the second of its four-part series Planting Perspectives featuring James P. Folsom, Telleen/Jorgensen Director of the Huntington Botanical Gardens and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, professor of Sociology at USC and author of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens. Folsom and Hondagneu-Sotelo will be joined in conversation with Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, Karen Quintiliani, Chairman, CSULB Dept. of Anthropology and co-founder of the Cambodian Community History and Archive Project which documents the Long Beach Cambodian Community, the largest outside Southeast Asia, and Claudia Jurmain, Moderator, Director of Special Projects & Publications, Rancho Los Alamitos. The Conversation will consider the interplay of economics, power and prestige, inequality, access and opportunity, and changing cultural and natural values in the landscapes of Southern California – in private backyards, in grand estates, in public places, and in the kitchen gardens of marginalized immigrants.
Parking for the event will be at California State University, Long Beach Lot 11A, enter at "CSULB PRKG" off of Palo Verde Avenue, between Atherton and University Drive. Parking and continuous handicap accessible shuttle service to and from the Rancho are free of charge.