Join Wild Ones Fox Valley Area Chapter, Wild Ones, and University of Wisconsin Oshkosh as they host an in-person and online event with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss. Register at Wild Ones.
Robin Wall Kimmerer will be discussing “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.” This talk explores the stories and experiences that shaped the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Listeners are invited to consider what we might learn if we understood plants as our teachers, from both a scientific and an indigenous perspective.
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Time: 5:00 p.m. (CST)
Price: Pricing for the in-person presentation is $25 for the general public and $21 for Wild Ones members.
Virtual registrants will receive a link to watch Dr. Kimmerer’s talk live. The recording will only be available for a limited time. Pricing for the online presentation is $18 for the general public and $14 for active Wild Ones members.
This event is free for University of Wisconsin Oshkosh students, faculty, and staff when registering with an active UWO e-mail address.
Location: Remote or in person at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Reeve Memorial Union, 748 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but also restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge, and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
E-mail photo: Robin Wall Kimmerer, plant ecologist, educator, and writer, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing and us a 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Syracuse, New York.
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