Lecture by Leila Philip, ‘Beavers: Beacons of Hope’
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Leila Philip’s critically acclaimed 2022 book Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, now a New York Times bestseller, explores these curious creatures and the humans who are learning from them.
These humble rodents engineer and maintain massive wetland complexes that create diverse wildlife habitats, protect water quality, lessen flood impacts, and offer peaceful spaces for reflection. Beavers might just be one of the most inspiring conservation comeback stories of the 20th century, for while they played an outsized role in shaping American history, they now have an important new role to play in our environmental future
Join Denison, the Licking Land Trust, and our local public libraries in welcoming Leila Philip to campus for a conversation about how we can learn from beavers to restore the land we care about.
More about Leila Philip
Leila Philip is an award-winning author whose most recent book, Beaverland, is a Times Editor’s Choice, New York Times Best Seller, and NPR Science Friday Book Club selection, which The Wall Street Journal called “as full of charm and wonder as its beguiling protagonist.”
A Guggenheim Fellow, Philip has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was a popular contributing columnist at the Boston Globe and taught in the Environmental Studies Program at the College of the Holy Cross, where she holds the Brooks Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.
No tickets required for this event. Seating is limited to 250 attendees.
