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Just Environments: Terry Tempest Williams

Join University of Tennessee, Knoxville Humanities Center Director Amy Elias for a discussion with celebrated author Terry Tempest Williams. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is a writer who speaks eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has testified before Congress on women’s health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses, and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda. As an educator, she has served as the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Graduate Program which she co-founded in 2004; was the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College; and currently is writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change.

This event is co-sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center, the Just Environments Collaboration and the Environmental Humanities Research Cluster. To learn more about the cluster, please contact Prof. Jamie Nisbet and Aaron Katzeman.