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For the 2024 Vancouver Institute Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture, Robin Wall Kimmerer draws on Indigenous and scientific wisdom to offer lessons on how we can heal our relationships with the natural world.

In her lecture, titled “Restoration and Reciprocity: Healing Relationships with the Natural World,” Dr. Kimmerer discusses how ecological restoration can be understood as an act of reciprocity, in return for the gifts of the earth. In this thought-provoking discussion and Q&A, Dr. Kimmerer explores the ecological and ethical imperatives of healing the damage we have inflicted on our land and waters. She traces the evolution of restoration philosophy and practice, and considers how the integration of Indigenous knowledge can expand our understanding of restoration from the biophysical to the biocultural. Reciprocal restoration includes not only healing the land, but our relationship to the land. In healing the land, we heal ourselves.

Book signing to follow presentation.

If you have already secured tickets to the event and can no longer attend, please return your tickets by emailing chan.tickets@ubc.ca. If you do not have tickets to the event, we encourage you to join the standby line at the venue on the day of the event.

“A profound perspective of history, restoration, reciprocity, responsibility and hope.” ~Forbes

This event is presented by the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in partnership with the Chan Centre at UBC, Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC,  and the Vancouver Institute.

Bio

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.