The Language of Trees: A Conversation with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore

The Language of Trees: A Conversation with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

2:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Virtual Event
Virtual Event

The Language of Trees: A Conversation with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore

The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, Orion Magazine and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology present the third event in a series to celebrate Orion’s latest anthology, Old Growth. “The Language of Trees” features a conversation between Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (link is external), and Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World (link is external). The event centers on a dialogue around the language of trees: how they communicate with one another, and how their futures are shaped by the language with which humans describe them. Moderating the event is Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-author of Journey of the Universe and co-founder of Yale’s Forum on Religion and Ecology.

The event continues a series celebrating the release of Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees from Orion Magazine (link is external). Prior events in the series featured Robin Wall Kimmerer, Robert Macfarlane, David G. Haskell, Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy.

We welcome you to watch the recording here (link is external).

Speakers

Alison Hawthorne Deming’s most recent books include A Woven World: On Fashion, Fisherman, and the Sardine DressZoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, and the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and Walt Whitman Award, she is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. Photo by: Bear Guerra

Kathleen Dean Moore is the author or co-editor of many books about our moral and emotional bonds to the wild, reeling world, including Wild Comfort, Moral GroundGreat Tide Rising, and her latest, Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World. She is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Association Award and the Oregon Book Award, along with the WILLA Literary Award for her novel Piano Tide

Moderator

Mary Evelyn Tucker teaches at the Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Divinity School and co-directs the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with John Grim. Together they have written Ecology and Religion and created six online classes on Coursera titled, Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community.

Hosted by Orion Magazine (link is external), The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment (link is external), Yale Forest Forum, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology (link is external), and Yale Environmental Humanities (link is external). Please contact yff@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) with any questions.