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View past resident talks on Sitka Center's YouTube channel.
Thursday March 28, 2024
4-5:30pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Join us to hear from residents Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Jamal Ademola, Mo Mengjie, Evan Silver and M Acuff. Register today and save the date.
Thursday April 11, 2024
4-5pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Join us to hear from residents Mika Aono, Julia Oldham, Marita Dingus and Edem Garro. Register today and save the date.
+ Moderated by writer, Callum Angus
Tuesday, May 16, 2024
4-5pm PST
This event is free and held online via Zoom
Circling the Wolf: What Kaleidoscopic Thinking Can Teach Us About Interconnection
Erica Berry began studying wolf repopulation because of its impact on her own family in the American west, which included a sheep farmer, hunters, and environmentalists. What began as an academic Environmental Studies project soon turned into a decade of obsession, where she researched stories about wolves both real and symbolic from around the world, leading to her nonfiction debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron/Macmillan, 2023). Weaving science, history, journalism, folklore, anthropology, and personal writing, Wolfish is a genre-crossing book that explores not only the biological wolf, but the very human emotions (fear, freedom, ferocity) that Berry grew up associating the animal with. In this keynote, which includes a short reading, she will talk about how and why she took this kaleidoscopic approach, making a case for what thinking omnivorously—porously moving between disciplines, and between self and subject—can teach us about environmental interconnectedness.