Please join us for the 2024 John Ruskin Birthday Lecture in the Sr. Kathleen Cannon, O.P., Distinguished Lecture Series. The distinguished speaker will be Robin Wall Kimmerer. She is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She 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.
In her lecture, Kimmerer will address the following questions: We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth, and yet we are tied to institutions that relentlessly ask what more can we take? Drawing upon both scientific and indigenous knowledges, Kimmerer will discuss the covenant of reciprocity and how we might use the gifts and responsibilities of human people in support of mutual thriving in a time of ecological crisis.
This lecture is sponsored by the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values with support from the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the Alliance for Catholic Education, the Department of History, the Glynn Family Honors Program, the Initiative on Race and Resilience, Native American Initiatives, and the Office of the Provost.
