Yale Library is honored to welcome Terry Tempest Williams for this talk in connection with the exhibition "Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson’s Environmental Vision,” on view at Beinecke Library through Oct. 4. Please join us for an engaging evening on the enduring significance of Rachel Carson, whose book "Silent Spring" sparked the modern environmental movement.
Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," who speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams consistently shows us that environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She is a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. "So here is my question," she asks, "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like--and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?"
Williams has served as the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, which she co-founded in 2004.
