Robin Wall Kimmerer and Tara June Winch
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Where
When
Tuesday, 27 Oct 2020, 06:15pm - 07:15pm
Event Status
Past event

We had a few technical problems while trying to record this conversation, scheduled for Tuesday 27 October at 6.15pm – so we’ve created it in a different format and it is now available to listen to as a podcast.
‘When a language dies, so much more than words are lost,’ the botanist and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer has said. ‘Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else.’
In our third Broadly Speaking talk on translation and language, we’ll bring together two First Nations writers whose work reflects on Indigenous languages and the languages of the natural world.
Kimmerer is a professor of environmental biology at the State University of New York and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She’s also the author of the remarkable bestselling essay collection, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
On 27 October, she’ll speak with acclaimed Wiradjuri writer Tara June Winch, whose Miles Franklin-winning novel, The Yield, is about traditional language and the stories that words contain. Join them as they discuss how living organisms and living languages can connect us to the past and enrich our collective future.
Our online bookseller for this event will be Neighbourhood Books.
The Broadly Speaking series is proudly supported by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and family.
Featuring
Featuring

Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air, was critically acclaimed and she was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary awards. A tenth anniversary edition was publishe... Read more

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss:... Read more
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