The UConn Reads committee invites you to a program welcoming the author of this year's selection, Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer.
The event is in person or virtually
Tuesday, March 26, 4:30 to 6 pm
In person: Homer Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Room
Virtually: via WebEx
Event Agenda
4:30 pm: Screening of the pre-recorded lecture on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. If you can’t make the lecture, you are welcome to view it at your leisure prior to the 26th from here (NetID required)
5:30 pm: Live, virtual 30-minute Q&A with author Robin Wall Kimmerer
For more details, including how to get a copy of the book electronically, go to https://uconnreads.uconn.edu/
To request an accommodation for the event or for other information, please contact Jean Cardinale at jean.cardinale@uconn.edu
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About Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass is a Bestseller in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, named a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub, and a Book Riot Favorite Summer Read of 2020.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
For more information, contact: Jean Cardinale at jean.cardinale@uconn.edu