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Thursday November 12: Zoom with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

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Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer

What Does the Earth Ask of Us?

From the Queen’s University Biological Station

Webinar with Robin Wall Kimmerer Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology at State University of New York (SUNY),and award-winning author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants

When: November 12, 2020 from 12:30 to 2pm

Where: Zoom

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TALK ABSTRACT:

We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth and yet we are tied to institutions which relentlessly ask what more can we take? Drawing upon both scientific and indigenous knowledges, this talk explores the covenant of reciprocity, how might we use the gifts and the responsibilities of human people in support of mutual thriving in a time of ecological crisis.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.

As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from State University of New York Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR:

The Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS) was recently awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PromoScience grant. The PromoScience program funds research intended to encourage youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. NSERC awarded QUBS with one year of funding to create unit plans designed to bring together Indigenous ways of knowing and being and environmental science and technology. This project is intended to foster an appreciation for Indigenous knowledge in all students and the complexity and sophistication of these systems.

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