University of Connecticut
Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment
Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 4:00pm (EST)
Alan Weisman
Author of “The World Without Us,” Journalist
Co-Founder – Homelands Productions
“World Without Us, World With Us”
Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, March 23 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center on the UConn Storrs campus.
From Alan’s bio at homelands.org:
Alan Weisman has worked on seven continents, in the Caribbean and Oceania, and in more than 60 countries. The author of six books, he is currently at work on his next, Hope Dies Last, to be published by Dutton/Penguin Random House.
Alan’s book, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), was a New York Times and international bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orion Book Award, the Rachel Carson Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and winner of the National Library of China’s Wenjin Book Prize. In 2020, Slate named it one of the top 50 nonfiction books of the last 25 years. It was named the top nonfiction book of 2007 by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, and Canada’s National Post, and has been translated into 34 languages.
Alan is a co-founder of Homelands Productions. His radio pieces have been heard on NPR, Public Radio International, and American Public Media. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Discover, Orion, Salon, VICE, Pacific Standard, Wilson Quarterly, Lapham’s Quarterly, Condé Nast Traveler, Boston Globe Magazine, and in several anthologies including The Best American Science Writing, The Best Buddhist Writing (even though he isn’t one), A Passion for This Earth, and Moral Ground.
Although the talk will be in-person, it is also available to watch (live) on WebEX. The live stream link is on the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Dr. Erin Kuprewicz at CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu