The community is invited to the 33rd Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture delivered this year by author Elizabeth Kolbert who will discuss her book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future on October 12 2022 at 5pm CT at Cahn Auditorium.
A moderated Q&A session will be held at the end of the talk.
For more information and to reserve tickets visit wcas.nu/leopold.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 and is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe and The Sixth Extinction for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. Her most recent book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future was a national bestseller and was recommended by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates as well as named one of the best books of 2021 by the Washington Post TIME Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews and Smithsonian Magazine. Elizabeth Kolbert is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the prestigious Heinz Award in the Environment which recognizes individuals for their work in confronting environmental concerns as well as the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2021 Kolbert was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson Street, Evanston, United States