lecture webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled about ending our successful yearlong series on environmental humanities with a visit from Elizabeth Kolbert,\u201d said Evelyn Sterne, director of the Center for the Humanities. \u201cAs an undergraduate English major who went on to become one of the nation\u2019s foremost science writers, she exemplifies a central goal of this series: to determine how the humanities help us to engage with the urgent environmental questions of our day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kolbert may be best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, \u201cThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,\u201d which follows the history of mass extinctions and looks at widespread extinctions today. But she has been an award-winning journalist for The New Yorker for nearly 25 years, traveling the world to cover the story of global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her 2005 New Yorker series on global warming, \u201cThe Climate of Man,\u201d won the American Association for the Advancement of Science\u2019s magazine award. In 2006, she captured the National Magazine Award for Public Interest for a three-part series, which resulted in her book \u201cField Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.\u201d Her work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue and Mother Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award, the Lannan Writing Fellowship, the 16th<\/sup> annual Heinz Award with a special focus on global change, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Science Writing, and a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, among many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPublished in 2021, her sixth book, \u201cUnder a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,\u201d has been a national best-seller and was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Time, Esquire and Smithsonian Magazine, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On April 13 at 溏心vlog免费B站, Kolbert will take part in a conversation moderated by 溏心vlog免费B站 labor and environmental historian Erik Loomis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kolbert\u2019s presentation is part of the humanities center\u2019s annual Spring Humanities Festival, which will include the presentation of the humanities achievement awards to an undergraduate and graduate student who have made strong contributions to the field of the humanities and 溏心vlog免费B站, and show promise in a humanities-related career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s humanities series has brought in speakers from across humanities disciplines, including a musician, maritime historian, nature writer and expert on Indigenous environmental issues, and has attracted especially large audiences for such appearances as writer Terry Tempest Williams and Providence-based musician Jake Blount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, Sterne said the \u201cBig Read\u201d of Kolbert\u2019s \u201cUnder a White Sky\u201d has been very successful, with all 100 copies of the book made available by the College of Arts and Sciences snatched up. There also were discussions of the book, overseen by Loomis and environmental historian Ximena Sevilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about how successful this series has been,\u201d said Sterne. \u201cFrom the beginning, the series has attracted a lot of attention from students, faculty and staff across the disciplines, and support by units across 溏心vlog免费B站. This has been really gratifying as one of the Center for the Humanities\u2019 goals is to forge connections and encourage conversations between people in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To view previous presentations in this year\u2019s series, go to the event webpage<\/a> and select from the individual lectures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 6, 2023 \u2013 In more than two decades of award-winning reporting, science writer Elizabeth Kolbert has built a reputation as one of the nation\u2019s most prominent voices on climate change. On Thursday, April 13, Kolbert will bring her years of expertise to the 溏心vlog免费B站 to close out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":85053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85055,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85052\/revisions\/85055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}