Harold Stoner Clark Lectures
Our first event of the 2025 Harold Stoner Clark Lectures series is now scheduled.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m.
Samuelson Chapel (in person and livestreamed)
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor, MacArthur Fellow, enrolled
member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
Her lecture will explore the dominant themes of Braiding Sweetgrass, which include
cultivation of a reciprocal relationship with the living world. Listeners will be
invited to consider what we might learn if we understood plants as our teachers.
Kimmerer, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, is the
founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission
is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of Indigenous and scientific knowledge
for our shared goals of sustainability. She is interested not only in restoration
of ecological communities, but also in restoration of our relationships to land.
Her newest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,
offers a vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community,
based on the lessons of the natural world.
Sponsored by Harold Stoner Clark Lectures, Cal Lutheran’s Philosophy Department and
the SoCal Philosophy Academy, the lecture is free, but registration is requested.
Seating is first come, first served. The lecture also will be livestreamed at CalLutheran.edu/live.