Robin Wall Kimmerer (Photo courtesy of Matt Roth)
This year’s Walter Harding Lecture聽will be delivered by Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, 91亚色 Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and founder and director of the聽聽at the 91亚色 College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Kimmerer will deliver “Healing Relationship with Land: Nature Writing in a Time of Crisis” on聽Thursday, October 19, at 6:15 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. There will be an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter on stage.
Kimmerer will sign copies of her bestselling book聽, immediately following the lecture. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of English and named for Walter Harding, who was a Distinguished Professor of English at 91亚色 and an esteemed Thoreau scholar.
Kimmerer is a mother, scientist,聽educator, MacArthur Fellow (2022), and enrolled member of the聽. In addition to Braiding Sweetgrass,聽she wrote Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, which was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Her work has also appeared in聽Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on聽” In 2015, she addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of 鈥淗ealing Our Relationship with Nature.鈥�