Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 19:00

Thu, October 1, 2015 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM See description. FREE. Ursula Heise | How We Learned to Start Worrying and Love Endangered Species

Ursula K. Heise is a Professor of English at UCLA and a faculty member of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). She was a Guggenheim Fellow and served as President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in 2011. She is currently the Managing Editor of the ACLA’s Report on the State of the Discipline. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary environmental culture, literature and art in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan; theories of globalization; literature and science; and the digital humanities.

Thursday, October 1, 7 pm at the Kelowna Art Gallery, 1315 Water Street