Keynote Address by Elizabeth Rush & Keeping History Above Water Opening Reception

Join us for a keynote address by Pulitzer-prize finalist Elizabeth Rush and opening reception for Keeping History Above Water: Looking Back, Moving Forward.

Doors open at 5:00 pm

5:30-6:30 pm. The Labor of Transformation: Rising tides and stronger storms demand that we transform how we live, on the coast and beyond. This talk will consider how to conduct that work in as democratic a manner as possible, leveraging the Elizabeth Rush’s experience onboard an Antarctic research vessel and the history of the last continent’s exploration as examples.

6:30-7:30 pm. Reception.

Tickets available here

About Elizabeth Rush:

Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World, and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Central to Rush’s writing practice is the act of listening: listening to those who live in front-line climate changed communities, listening to Antarctica’s great glaciers as they go to pieces, listening to all those voices long locked out of environmental conversations. Her work explores a couple of fundamental questions: what does our disassembling world ask of us? How can we continue to live and love while also losing much? Rush’s work has appeared in wide range of publications from the New York Times to Orion and Guernica. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Metcalf Institute. She splits her time between Providence, Rhode Island where teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University and Bogotá, Colombia.