March 27 | 5 p.m. John and Mary Alford Performing Arts Hall 1209 University Drive, Newark, Ohio Free and Open to the Public. Registration Required.
Free books available for the first 100 registrants!
Book signing to follow.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Kimmerer will discuss her experiences as an Indigenous scientist and writer and explore how we can deepen our understanding of the natural world through Indigenous ways of knowing. She will share stories and insights that challenge us to rethink our relationship with the Earth and all its inhabitants, and inspire us to cultivate a more respectful, reciprocal, and sustainable relationship with the world around us.
Additional Book Access:
Free copies of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants are still available at the library front desk on the Newark campus of The Ohio State University and Central Ohio Technical College. Our address is 1219 University Dr. ; please pick up your copy by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 27.
Electronic copies of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants are available: https://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b10174856~S7
Additional print copies can be requested through OhioLINK, Licking County Library, and Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Sponsored by the Newark Earthworks Center; Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Office of Multicultural Affairs; John L. and Christine Warner Library; Newark Campus Bookstore; Central Ohio Technical College and The Ohio State University at Newark.
If you need accommodations for this event, please contact Stephanie Rowland at Rowland.245@osu.edu by March 13th. The university will make every effort to meet requests after this date.
