Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture: Robin Wall Kimmerer

A profound perspective of history, restoration, reciprocity, responsibility and hope.

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Enjoy an evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi educator, botanist and bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.

For the 2024 Vancouver Institute Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture, Robin Wall Kimmerer draws on Indigenous and scientific wisdom to offer lessons on how we can heal our relationships with the natural world.

In her lecture, titled “Restoration and Reciprocity: Healing Relationships with the Natural World,” Dr. Kimmerer discusses how ecological restoration can be understood as an act of reciprocity, in return for the gifts of the earth. In this thought-provoking discussion and Q&A, Dr. Kimmerer explores the ecological and ethical imperatives of healing the damage we have inflicted on our land and waters. She traces the evolution of restoration philosophy and practice, and considers how the integration of Indigenous knowledge can expand our understanding of restoration from the biophysical to the biocultural.

Reciprocal restoration includes not only healing the land, but our relationship to the land. In healing the land, we heal ourselves.

This event is presented in partnership with the Chan Centre at UBC, Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC, Museum of Anthropology at UBC and the Vancouver Institute.