Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture
Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
Note: This lecture will be held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Thursday, September 26 at 6 pm.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
Dr. Kimmerer will be available for book signing after the presentation. KidsBooks will be selling books on-site.
Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2020 and 2022). Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), was awarded the 2005 John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only ecological communities but also the restoration of our relationships to the land. She is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge, and restoration ecology. In 2015 Dr. Kimmerer addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations. Her latest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, is expected in November 2024.
