Zahner Conservation Lecture 7: “Sounds Wild and Broken”

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Thu, Jul 27, 2023
6:00 pm
2023-07-27T18:00:00-04:00
2023-07-27T18:15:00-04:00
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Highlands Nature Center
Highlands Nature Center, 930 Horse Cove Rd, Highlands, NC 28741, USA
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Highlands Nature Center
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Featured Speaker: David George Haskell, Ph.D.; Author and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor; University of the South

 

FREE  |  No registration necessary  |  Reception to follow

Sonic communication was a late-comer to the evolution of life on Earth. But once song got started, the links that it forged became powerful generative forces. Today, the diverse sounds around us – from chirping crickets, to birdsong, to the human music in our earbuds – reveal the many layers of this evolutionary and cultural creativity. Yet sonic diversity is also threatened worldwide. Using examples from his own explorations of sound, Haskell will show how attention to the sensory richness of the world, especially its sonic dimensions, can root and guide exploration, ethics, and action.

Sponsored by Rosemary & Bill Stiefel.

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