Elizabeth Kolbert to Lead Discussion Following Movie “A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish”

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., February 22, 2012 – The Oceans Symposium at Williams College will continue on Monday, Feb. 27, with a discussion led by Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer at The New Yorker. The discussion, which will be conducted in a Q-and-A format, will follow a screening of the film A Sea Change, Imagine a World without Fish. The event will take place at 7 p.m. in Thompson Biology, room 112. It is free and open to the public.
This spring, Kolbert is serving as the W. Ford Schumann Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies in the anthropology and sociology department. She is teaching After Nature this semester, a cross-listed environmental studies and English course.
Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, where she writes political profiles, book reviews, and extensive pieces on climate change. In 2005, she published a three-part series on global warming titled “The Climate of Man” in the publication, for which she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award, National Magazine Award for Public Interest, and National Academies Communication Award.
Prior to joining The New Yorker, Kolbert was a reporter at The New York Times for more than a decade. She served as Albany bureau chief and wrote the Metro Matters Column. Kolbert has also authored two books. The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, a compilation of articles published in The New Yorker about New York public figures, was published in 2004. Her second book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, about global warming, was published in 2006.
Kolbert received her B.A. from Yale University in 1983.
Scott Doney, professor in marine chemistry and geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will present the next lecture of the Oceans Symposium on March 6. His talk is titled “Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ocean Acidification.”
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