Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | 4 - 6:30 PM
Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Kim Stanley Robinson talks climate, politics, and the future with Berkeley's Katherine Snyder and Daniel Aldana Cohen. Listen to the recording on Berkeley Talks.
Kim Stanley Robinson is the award-winning author of 22 novels and numerous short stories exploring themes of ecological sustainability, economic and social justice, global politics, and big science. In recent years, Robinson has written extensively on the climate crisis in 2312, New York City 2140, and 2020’s powerful Ministry for the Future. Barack Obama called Ministry one of his favorite books of the year while the New York Review of Books proclaimed: "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination.”
Robinson is a long-time Californian, growing up in Southern California, studying at UC San Diego and living now in Davis. His latest book is The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022).
At the Brower Center, Robinson will be in conversation with Berkeley’s Katherine Snyder (English, Cli-Fi) and Daniel Aldana Cohen (Sociology, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative). The event will include audience Q&A followed by a networking reception.
Sponsors
Organized by Berkeley Climate Change Network, in partnership with Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Graduate School of Journalism, Rausser College of Natural Resources, Department of English, SC(2), and Townsend Center for the Humanities.