Wendell Berry reads from his work. Tuesday, Nov. 9 and Thursday, Nov.11, 2010 in Rawles Hall, room 100 at 7:30 p.m.
One of America's preeminent philosophers of place, a leading advocate for environmental stewardship and a fierce critic of agribusiness, he first came to literary notice as a poet in the 1960s. Since then, Berry has written nearly 30 books of poetry, an equal number of nonfiction works and more than a dozen novels. The thread running through all of his literary work is sustainability. He articulates a persistent criticism of industrial farming with its reliance on fossil fuels, mono-cultural techniques, and a studied ignorance of the local context in its drive for efficiency and profits. Berry not only anticipated the way in which human relationships with food would become the focus of attention in environmentalism and public culture generally, but he also identified the fundamental relationship between environmental problems, on the one hand, and questions about "virtue ethics" and what it means to live a good life, on the other. For more information on Berry, see http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=540.
In affiliation with the Patten Lectures, Berry will also be a part of:
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
College of Arts and Sciences Themester series: sustain•ability: Thriving on a Small Planet
Discussion - "The Agriculture We Have and the Agriculture We Need" A conversation between poet Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson of The Land Institute,
moderated by Scott Russell Sanders
7:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 013
Friday, November 12, 2010
“Hymnody of Earth,” a choral song cycle by Malcolm Dalglish with poetry and readings by Wendell Berry, accompanied by Ooolites, Bloomington Chamber Singers, and N. Scott Robinson8:00 pm, Buskirk Chumley Theater
(Tickets: $20 General Admission, $10 students. Advance Purchase: www.buskirkchumley.org)
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