The Hudson as Life Force panel event

When:

November 18, 2018: 2:00PM to 5:00PM

Where:

Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave, Yonkers, NY 10701 map

To Attend:

Free with museum admission / RSVP required

In conjunction with the Hudson River Museum exhibition “Maya Lin: A River is a Drawing”, there will be a Sunday Scholar Series event featuring a panel discussion titled “The Hudson as Life Force” followed by a reception and book signing sponsored by Cornell University Press.

Paul Gallay, President of Riverkeeper, will moderate a panel of four distinguished thinkers as they examine the Hudson River as material and metaphor, looking at how we experience America’s First River, our personal relationship to it, how we have changed it, and how it has, in turn, changed us. Sharing their unique perspectives and understanding of the reality and the idea of the Hudson River and its meaning in the narrative of climate change are panelists:

Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary

John Waldman, Professor of Biology at Queens College and author of Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and their Great Fish Migrations (copies available for signing)

David Schuyler, author of Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism (copies available for signing) and professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College

Immediately following the panel will be a reception sponsored by Cornell University Press for guests to meet and mingle with the panelists while enjoying light refreshments. There will also be copies for sale of David Schuyler’s new book “Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism” published by Three Hills, a trade imprint of Cornell University Press, which he will be signing during the event.

Event is free with Museum admission but RSVP required.

Support for the reception provided by:
   

Three Hills, a trade imprint of Cornell University Press, publishes smart, informative, entertaining, and provocative books about New York State and the Northeast. From history to unusual hobbies, politics to pop culture, the environment to the economy, sports to tourist spots, Three Hills covers the Empire State, its people and heritage, Cornell University, and much more.

Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance. Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practical knowledge, while commanding its own distinct editorial profile.

New York Times review: Maya Lin Captures the Hudson’s Beauty and Power