Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 8, 2015—Williams College will host a conversation with bestselling author Michael Pollan on issues about the intersection of nature and culture. The event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. on the MainStage in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance.
Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect, such as on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment, for the past 25 years. He is the author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013) and of four New York Times bestsellers: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (2010); In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008); The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) and The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001).
The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, and it won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Pollan teaches at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and is the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism.
Henry Art, Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology, will interview Michael Pollan on the MainStage. Audience questions must be submitted in advance to [email protected] before noon on Monday, Oct. 19.
The event is open to the public and tickets are free but required. They are available online (http://62center.williams.edu/box-office/) or by calling the box office at 413-597-2425, Tues.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the President’s Office, the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, the Gaudino Fund, the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives, the Center for Environmental Studies, the Class of 1963 Sustainability Development Fund, the Class of ’46 Fund for World Brotherhood, and Williams College Dining Services.
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Published October 8, 2015
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