Author, environmental advocate to speak at 性欲社
September 10, 2010
907-474-7902
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Award-winning writer and environmental advocate Terry Tempest Williams will speak at 性欲社 Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom.
Williams is the author of 鈥淩efuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place,鈥 considered an environmental literature classic, as well as multiple other books. Williams has testified before Congress on women鈥檚 issues, been a guest at the White House, camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses, and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.
Williams was the 2006 recipient of The Wilderness Society鈥檚 Robert Marshall Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.
Williams鈥 lecture is part of the University of Alaska鈥檚 Bartlett Lecture Series. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Williams will also participate in an informal meet-and-greet from 1-2 p.m. in Wood Center Conference Rooms E and F.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Cody Rogers at 907-474-6026 or cbrogers@alaska.edu.
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