As students familiar with the work of Elizabeth Kolbert, join this one-hour Q&A session where you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the writing with the author, American Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,[and as an observer and commentator on the environment for The New Yorker magazine.
Monday, February 12, 2024 (2:30–3:30 p.m.)
Umrath Lounge, Danforth Campus
And please consider staying for the Assembly Series, a talk by Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.” The history of life on Earth has been described as long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic. In her talk, “The Fate of the Earth,” Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss the current biodiversity crisis in the context of the great mass extinctions of the past. Why do humans pose such a threat to the other species on the planet and what can be done to contain this threat?
Register for both below.
