Special Event: Sunday, March 8
5:00-6:30 pm
Wellesley College Houghton Chapel
Free to the public. Tickets on sale February 2.
Join Mass Audubon, the Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative, and the Native American and Indigenous Student Association at Wellesley College for a talk and Q&A with the author of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry, renowned plant ecologist, educator, writer, MacArthur Fellow and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.
In her talk, Dr. Kimmerer will present the serviceberry as a living metaphor for abundance, generosity, and reciprocity, offering a powerful alternative to extractive, market-based scarcity economies. She will reflect on human dependence on the living world and the disconnect created by Western consumer systems, inviting audiences to imagine legal, ethical, and spiritual frameworks grounded in ecological interdependence. Through an ethic of care, gratitude, and mutual responsibility, Kimmerer explores how we might re-orient our lives toward a gift economy rooted in relationships and the shared flourishing of all beings.
This event is made possible by the Jean and Henry Stone Memorial Lecture, Wendy J. Paulson ‘69 and the Chief Arvol Looking Horse and Class of 1956 Distinguished Speaker Series, and many departments and center co-sponsors for making this event possible.
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