Ruth Ozeki will be reading from her novels and discussing the healing power of listening, story-telling, and bearing witness (in community). The Buddhist idea of dependent co-arising or radical interdependence will also be considered.
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, whose books have garnered international acclaim for their ability to integrate issues of science, technology, religion, environmental politics, and global pop culture into unique, hybrid, narrative forms. Her novels, My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013) and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2022) have been translated and published in over thirty countries.
Date/Time: April 6th at 3:30pm
Location: Class of 1947 room, Homer Babbige Library or WebEx
WebEx Link:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/weblink/register/r68928d8f3db9bb3e2e76c50f4dcabf47
For more information, contact: Martha Cutter at martha.cutter@uconn.edu