Photo Credit: Barbara Kinney
We are all dreamers. What happens when a particular dream becomes a vow? The vow Terry Tempest Williams made became "The Epic Documentation of The Glorians." When she awoke from this dream during the pandemic of 2020, she asked one question: "What is a Glorian?" In this conversation with Robin Kelsey, be prepared to hear stories about visitations from the holy ordinary. We can dream a new world into being. The Glorians are reaching out to us, inviting us to engage.
Join us for this conversation with Robin Kelsey and Terry Tempest Williams as we celebrate this 10-year anniversary of the Environmental Forum.
Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, educator, and environmental activist. Known for her lyrical and impassioned prose, she is the author of over twenty creative nonfiction books including the environmental literature classic, Refuge – An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her other books include The Open Space of Democracy, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds, The Hour of Land, and Erosion – Essays of Undoing. Her most recent book, The Glorians – Visitations From the Holy Ordinary, will be published this spring, a book the New York Times reported as being one of “The Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026.” Recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowship, Ms. Williams’ work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker,the Progressive, and Orion, and translated worldwide. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, she is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah with her husband, Brooke Williams.
Robin Kelsey is Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography at Harvard University. A specialist in the histories of photography, modernism, and American art, Professor Kelsey has published on such topics as the role of chance in photography, geographical survey photography, landscape theory, ecology and historical interpretation, picture theory, and the nexus of art and law.
The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography at Harvard University, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology at Harvard University. The series is dedicated to exploring new work in the arts and humanities that reframes or reimagines the relationship of humanity to the rest of nature.
This event is co-sponsored by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.
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