Gretel Ehrlich, The End of Ice: Subsistence & Change in Northern Greenland

Based on Ehrlich's more than 20 years of work with indigenous communities in Greenland, this presentation explores the unraveling of a 5000-year-old subsistence hunting culture.

May 3, 2016
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Sponsored by
Dickey Center
Audience
Public
More information
Lee McDavid
603-646-1278

Gretel Ehrlich is the author of 15 books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry including THE SOLACE OF OPEN SPACES, HEART MOUNTAIN, THIS COLD HEAVEN, and FACING THE WAVE, which was long-listed for the National Book Award. Her books have won many awards, including the first Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing, the PEN USA Award for Nonfiction, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Geographic Expedition Grants for travel in the Arctic, a Whiting Award, and an National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her work has appeared in Harpers, the Atlantic, Orion, the New York Times Magazine, and Best Essays of the Century, among other publications. Her poetry was featured on the PBSNewsHour.   She lives with her partner, Neal Conan on a farm in the highlands of Hawai’i, and a ranch in Wyoming. 

Based on Ehrlich’s more than twenty years of work with indigenous communities in Greenland, this presentation will explore the unraveling of a 5000-year-old subsistence hunting culture in northern Greenland, the polar bear spirit, and the end of ice.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Anthropology Department. 

 

Location
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Sponsored by
Dickey Center
Audience
Public
More information
Lee McDavid
603-646-1278