Lecture: Beavers, Beacons of Hope, an Author Talk with Leila Philip (Pre-Reg Rqrd)
February 26 @ 5:30pm
Rosenberry-Donohue Lectures on the American West: Beavers, Beacons of Hope, an Author Talk with Leila Philip
Thursday, February 26
5:30 p.m. | Hager Auditorium
Included with membership, $5/non-member
Registration is required
Part of the Rosenberry-Donohue Lectures on the American West
Join Museum of the Rockies in welcoming Leila Philip to Montana for an author talk on how we can learn from beavers to restore the lands we love. In this illustrated talk, New York Times bestselling author, Leila Philip will discuss the writing of Beaverland How One Weird Rodent Made America: how she discovered beavers, what went into researching and writing this now critically acclaimed book, and the increasingly important role beavers have come to play as we face some of our most dire environmental challenges. Called a “triumph of popular nature writing” by Publisher’s Weekly, Beaverland was an NPR Science Friday pick, a New York Times Editor’s choice, was chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by Barnes & Noble, became a New York Times best seller, and more recently was selected to represent Connecticut at the Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Speaker Bio
Leila Philip is the author of award-winning books of nonfiction that chronicle diverse, personal journeys. In The Road Through Miyama, Philip, already fluent in Japanese and a potter, traveled to Japan to apprentice to a master potter in southern Kyushu. A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family, took her much closer to home (literally), and weaves the history of the Hudson valley farm where she spent her childhood with a revealing account of what’s involved in cultivating orchards. Both books received awards, and glowing national reviews. A Guggenheim Fellow, Leila has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She works across genres, publishing poetry, essays and theatrical script and is currently at work on a documentary film. She was a popular contributing columnist at the Boston Globe and teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at the College of the Holy Cross where she is a professor in the English Department and holds the Brooks Chair in the Humanities.
