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Past Events
Date | City | Venue | Country |
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May 4, 2022 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 8:30pm. Letter to a Stranger anthology tour featuring editor Colleen Kinder and contributors, Lavinia Spalding, Meera Subramanian, Akemi Johnson, Faith Adiele, Emmanuel Iduma, and Anna Vodicka. Hosted by Book Passage, San Francisco. More information | |||
May 3, 2022 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 6:30pm. Orion Magazine and Person Place Thing are teaming up for a live virtual recording of the popular podcast Person Place Thing, hosted by Randy Cohen. More information | |||
August 21, 2021 | Brooklyn, NY | Brooklyn Public Library | United States |
Time: 6:30pm. Admission: free. Copresented by Writers Rebel NYC and Orion Magazine, Climate Reads returns with Trace, by Lauret Savoy. Authors Kathryn Aalto, Marissa Landrigan, Meera Subramanian discuss the book with green librarian Karie Schulenburg. More information | |||
June 30, 2021 | everywhere | Beyond Plastics | United States |
Time: 1:00pm. Beyond the Promise of Plastic: How Storytelling Will Change the Future of Plastic with Rebecca Altman, David Farrier and Meera Subramanian. Copresented by Orion magazine and Beyond Plastics More information | |||
June 15, 2021 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Join editors and contributors to celebrate the launch of The End of the World As We Know It, a thrilling, timely, and haunting collection of essays in which nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives. More information | |||
May 6, 2021 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 12:00pm. How do we connect across the climate divide? In this episode of the Climate One podcast, Greg Dalton explores the answer with Nathaniel Rich, author of the new book Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade, and Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again. More information | |||
February 10, 2021 | Tucson, AZ | University of Arizona | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. The New Nature of Plastics: Join award-winning journalist Meera Subramanian in an exploration of the edge zone between the natural and unnatural world we inhabit. She’ll read and discuss a new feature forthcoming in Orion magazine about the nature of plastics and how their expansive presence is altering systems large and small: biological, ecological, geological. As plastics degrade, so do the barriers that once seemed so defined and distinct, between the inert and the organic, between the outside of a body and its interior, between science and art, between present and future. Even between what is living and what is not. More information | |||
October 26, 2020 | St. Peterborough, NH | MacDowell | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Art and Urgency: Journalism in the Post-Truth Era. MacDowell Journalism Panel Examines the Fragility of Facts and Urgency of Art in a Post-Truth Era. Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Paul Reyes will moderate a discussion with prominent journalists Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Meera Subramanian, Alexis Okeowo, and Jeff Sharlet. More information | |||
Tour: A River Runs Again / Elemental India Book Tour | |||
September 15, 2020 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University: Guyot Hall | United States |
Time: 12:30pm. Address: Guyot 10. Eco-Swaraj: Can India Achieve Environmental Self-Rule? More information | |||
Tour: SEJ | |||
July 8, 2020 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 1:00pm. SEJ Webinar: Covering Climate, COVID-19 and Environmental Justice More information | |||
Tour: Teaching/Workshops | |||
June 26, 2020 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 7:30pm. As part of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, join me for this public evening reading event. Free but register to get access. | |||
June 22, 2020 - June 28, 2020 | Bemidji, Minnesota | Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference | United States |
Address: Ruttger’s Lodge on Lake Bemidji. Since 2003, writers from all over the United States have gathered in an intimate lakeside setting with award-winning authors and teachers to practice the arts of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. More information | |||
Tour: A River Runs Again / Elemental India Book Tour | |||
May 26, 2020 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 8:45am. CPS Global School, Chennai, India: Erudite Educational Talk Series. Eco-Swaraj | |||
Tour: Teaching/Workshops | |||
April 27, 2020 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 1:00pm. COVID-19: HEALTH, SCIENCE AND BUSINESS WRITERS ON COVERING THE PANDEMIC: Join Freedom Forum fellow Jill Geisler as she debriefs leaders of journalism organizations whose members focus on health, science and the economic impact of COVID-19, now and in the future. Participants in this Power Shift Project webinar include the National Association of Science Writers, Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, Society of Environmental Journalists and more to come. More information | |||
April 24, 2020 | Everywhere | Online | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Climate Change and Coronavirus Panel: In continuation of the celebration of Earth Day, on Friday, April 24th at 4:30 p.m., Princeton Environmental Activism Coalition will be holding a Climate Change and Coronavirus panel on Zoom with Stephen Pacala, Kian Mintz-Woo and Meera Subramanian More information | |||
March 26, 2020 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University: McCosh Hall | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: McCosh Hall, Room 10. Award-winning environmental journalist Meera Subramanian will host the discussion “New Imaginings: Storytelling, Science and Activism” featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers, author of The Overstory; Robin Wall Kimmerer, SUNY professor of environmental biology and author of Braiding Sweetgrass; and forest activist Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. Subramanian, the 2019-20 PEI Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities, will lead a conversation exploring how the work of scientists, artists and activists come together to inspire fundamental shifts in perspective. From the underground networks that feed forests to how human activity impacts the upper atmosphere, our understanding of how the world works shapes our minds, the stories we tell, and the way we act. Related post. Cancelled More information | |||
Tour: A River Runs Again / Elemental India Book Tour | |||
February 10, 2020 | New Haven, CT | Yale University | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.. Eco Swaraj: Can India Achieve Environmental Self-Rule? (Poynter Lecture) More information | |||
November 18, 2019 | New York City, NY | International House | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 2nd floor of the South Building at 500 Riverside Drive (between 121st & 122nd Street). *Invitation only* | |||
October 25, 2019 | Princeton, NJ | Princeton University: Guyot Hall | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: Guyot 10. Science journalist Meera Subramanian, the 2019 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), challenges us to step into other people’s lives — and the narratives that shape them — during this pivotal time for humanity and the planet. From farmers in north India to fly fishermen in Montana, individual stories and perspectives may be more important than ever as nearly 8 billion humans struggle to share one planet. The Environmental Humanities Colloquium aims to build an intellectual community of Princeton scholars and graduate students from all backgrounds whose work is animated by — or intersects with — issues central to the environmental humanities. The Fall 2019 colloquium is organized and hosted by Rob Nixon, the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment and professor of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute, and Anne McClintock, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and PEI associated faculty. Subramanian is the first speaker in the Fall 2019 Environmental Humanities Colloquium sponsored by PEI. More information | |||
June 12, 2019 | Sewanee, TN | Sewanee School of Letters | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: 735 University Ave.. More information | |||
February 22, 2019 | Oracle, AZ | Biosphere 2 | United States |
Time: 9:00am. “Once Upon a Tomorrow” keynote speech for Crafting the Long Tomorrow, an environmental humanities symposium organized by the University of Arizona More information | |||
October 24, 2018 | Boston, MA | Northeastern University | United States |
Time: 6:00pm. Admission: free and open to the public. Address: West Village Residence Complex F (Rm. 20) 40A Leon St. Reporting and Battling Climate Change: with Tom Zeller, Jr, Editor in Chief, Undark magazine; Susan Solomon, Climate Scientist, MIT; and Meera Subramanian, Science Journalist and Author. Part of Newsroom Confidential—Inside the Media, Politics and Policy Fall 2018 Myra Kraft Open Classroom series. More information | |||
June 12, 2018 | Boston, MA | Northeastern University | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: West Village Residence Complex F (Rm. 20) 40A Leon St. Reading and conversation with School of Letters Interim Director John Gatta More information | |||
August 3, 2017 | Providence, RI | Brown University | United States |
Time: 10:30am. Stories Can Save Us, a presentation for the University Research Magazine Association conference | |||
Tour: A River Runs Again / Elemental India Book Tour | |||
April 19, 2017 | Cambridge, MA | MIT Sloan School of Management | United States |
Time: 6:30pm. Address: MIT Room E62-276, 100 Main Street. MIT Tata Talk Series Free & open to MIT community More information | |||
April 14, 2017 | Iowa City, IA | University of Iowa | United States |
Time: 3:00pm. Admission: free & open to the public. Address: campus. Global Forum: Women’s Health & the Environment: Going up in Smoke. “Writing About Climate Change” location: Becker Communication Studies Building, Room #101 More information | |||
April 13, 2017 | Iowa City, IA | University of Iowa | United States |
Time: 10:00am. Admission: free & open to the public. Address: campus. Women’s Health & The Environment: Going Up In Smoke “Carbon, Climate Change and Biomass Use” location: Senate Chamber, Old Capitol Museum More information | |||
March 27, 2017 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard University / STS Circle | United States |
Time: 12:15pm. Address: K262, Bowie-Vernon Room, CGIS, 1737 Cambridge Street. Eco Swaraj: Can India’s Model of the Micro Transform Development for the 21st Century? Please RSVP to [email protected] by Wednesday at 5PM the week before. | |||
February 16, 2017 | Boston, MA | Westin Copley Hotel | United States |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: 10 Huntington Avenue, Staffordshire Room (3rd Fl.). Science & Environment: A Journalist’s Perspective. Science and policy issues in energy and the environment have become a rich source of material for authors and journalists across the media spectrum. In particular, both the science of climate change and the reporting on that science have become heavily politicized, posing unique challenges for journalism. Moderated by: John Rogers, Senior Energy Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists, managed both public and private clean energy initiatives and most recently raising awareness of the energy-water connection in the context of climate change. Featured Panelists: Joe Romm, author, editor of Climate Progress, and science advisor to National Geographic series “Years of Living Dangerously” Meera Subramanian, award-winning journalist and Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT whose work has been published around the world and author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka (2015, PublicAffairs) Seth Borenstein, award-winning national science writer for the Associated Press Event coincides with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference. Cocktail reception to follow discussion, free and open-to-the-public. More information | |||
February 7, 2017 | Cambridge, MA | MIT / MITei / e4Dev | United States |
Time: 5:30pm. Address: Building E18, Room 304, 50 Ames Street. Eco Swaraj: Can India’s Model of the Micro Transform Development for the 21st Century? More information | |||
October 22, 2016 | Concord, MA | Concord Festival of Authors | United States |
Time: 7:30pm. Address: The Umbrella Community Arts Center, 40 Stow St.. More information | |||
July 6, 2016 | Cotuit, MA | Cotuit Public Library | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 871 Main Street. Venue phone: 508-428-8141. More information | |||
May 17, 2016 | Boston, MA | Trident Booksellers event with Alan Weisman | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 338 Newbury Street. Join Alan Weisman (The World Without Us, Countdown) and me for a reading and discussion about life on earth. More information | |||
April 5, 2016 | Barnstable, MA | Sturgis Public Library | United States |
Time: 6:30pm. Address: 3090 Main St.. | |||
April 2, 2016 | Boston, MA | Boston University / Power of Narrative Conference 2016 | United States |
Time: 3:30pm. Address: Boston University College of General Studies 871 Commonwealth Avenue. “Anatomy Of A First-Book Deal (And How To Survive While Actually Writing The Book)” solo talk Room 515 More information | |||
April 2, 2016 | Boston, MA | Boston University / Power of Narrative Conference 2016 | United States |
Time: 2:15pm. Address: Boston University College of General Studies 871 Commonwealth Avenue. “From First to Final Draft” panel discussion on the process of revision with fellow panelists Mark Kramer, Connie Hale, Sarah Maslin Nir, and Adam Hochschild. Room 511 More information | |||
March 31, 2016 | Los Angeles, CA | AWP Conference and Bookfair | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: JW Marriott LA (Gold Salon 4, 1st Floor), 900 W. Olympic Blvd.. “The New Nature Writing” panel discussion with Elizabeth Rush, Christine Woodside, Sarah Gilman, and Laura Pritchett. | |||
March 8, 2016 | Lewiston, ME | Bates College | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. Multimedia lecture and reading from A River Runs Again | |||
February 26, 2016 | Hyderabad, Telangana | University of Hyderabad: Centre for Regional Studies, School of Social Sciences | India |
Time: 3:00pm. Address: Conference Hall, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, NRS Annex Rd, Gulmohar Park Colony, Serilingampally. | |||
February 19, 2016 | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Centre for Ecological Sciences / Indian Institute of Science | India |
Time: 6:00pm. Address: Third floor, Biological Sciences Building. | |||
February 19, 2016 | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Azim Premji University | India |
Time: 2:00pm. Address: PES Campus Pixel Park, B Block Electronics City, Hosur Road (Beside NICE Road). | |||
February 16, 2016 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | IIT-Madras Research Park: Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) | India |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: Ground Floor, Auditorium, Kanagam Road, Taramani (Located adjacent to IIT Madras campus and is linked by a vehicle over-bridge. Its main entrance is from the IT Corridor near the Tidel Park). RSVP to: [email protected] High tea: 5:30 to 6:30, after presentation | |||
February 15, 2016 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Madras Institute of Development Studies | India |
Time: 3:30pm. Address: 79, Second Main Road, Gandhinagar, Adyar. | |||
February 11, 2016 | Pune, Maharashtra | Alternatives Forum Pune at Fergusson College | India |
Time: 11:00am. Address: Fergusson College Road. Hosted by Kalpavriksh, Parisar, Prayas, Centre for Environment Education, SOPPECOM, and Manthan | |||
February 9, 2016 | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Maharashtra Nature Park | India |
Time: 9:00am. Address: Bandra Sion link road (near Mahim). Join us for a meeting with environmental science students! | |||
February 6, 2016 | Mumbai | Kala Ghoda Arts Festival | India |
Time: 6:45pm. Address: Ador House, 1st floor, Rampart Row, Kala Ghoda. “Eco Artists — Chronicling India’s environmental concerns through diverse art forms” with panelists Meera Subramanian, Ravi Agarwal, Arati Kumar-Rao and Sonia Mehra Chawla More information | |||
February 5, 2016 | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Mumbai Press Club (for journalists only) | India |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: Glass House, Mahapalika Marg, Azad Maidan, Fort. | |||
February 4, 2016 | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Green Drinks at Bombay Connect | India |
Time: 7:45pm. Address: 26, St John Baptist Rd, Mt Mary, Bandra West. More information | |||
January 28, 2016 | New Delhi | UChicago Center in Delhi | India |
Time: 6:00pm. Address: DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place. Elemental India: The Natural World at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity. Multimedia presentation Related post. | |||
January 25, 2016 | New Delhi | Oxford Bookstore | India |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: N-81, Connaught Circus. “We Speak Up: Can a Generation of Indian Girls Find their Voice?” Related post. | |||
January 19, 2016 | New Delhi | The American Center | India |
Time: 6:00pm. Address: 24 Kasturba Gandhi Marg (near Barakhamba Metro Station). | |||
November 22, 2015 | Miami, FL | Miami Book Fair International | United States |
Time: 8:00am. Address: Rm. 8525 (Bldg. 8, 5th Floor) 300 NE Second Ave.. Water and a World in Crisis In conversation with author Seth M. Siegel. | |||
November 20, 2015 | Literary Death Match: Miami Book Fair International | United States | |
Time: 5:30pm. With Ben Mezrich, Sara Benincasa, and Colin Channer. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga. | |||
November 12, 2015 | Providence, RI | Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs & URI’s Metcalf Institute | United States |
Time: 12:00pm. Address: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. | |||
November 6, 2015 | San Francisco, CA | Book Passage San Francisco | United States |
Time: 6:00pm. Address: 1 Ferry Building. | |||
November 5, 2015 | San Francisco, CA | World Affairs Council Of Northern California | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200. | |||
November 1, 2015 | Portland, OR | Powell’s Bookstore on Hawthorne | United States |
Time: 7:30pm. Address: 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. | |||
November 1, 2015 | Cottage Grove, OR | Axe & Fiddle | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 657 E Main St. | |||
November 1, 2015 | Seattle, WA | Elliott Bay Book Company | United States |
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 1521 10th Ave. | |||
October 29, 2015 | Eugene, OR | University of Oregon | United States |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: Straub Hall, Room 145. 1451 Onyx Street. Hosted by: Department of Geography, Barbara & Carlisle Moore Professor of English Fund, School of Journalism & Communications, Hearst Foundation Visiting Professionals Endowment Fund, Department of Sociology,Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon Bookstore. | |||
October 28, 2015 | KLCC with Eric Alan | United States | |
October 24, 2015 | New York, NY | Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival | United States |
Time: 12:30pm. Address: The English Department, Hunter College (West Building) at 68th St. India and Her Realities Authors Meera Subramanian and Raghu Karnad, moderated by Hindol Sengupta | |||
October 17, 2015 | Austin, TX | Texas Book Festival | United States |
Time: 12:00pm. Address: Texas Capital (Kirkus), Congress Avenue. Wade in What Water In conversation with Dan Fagin and Seamus McGraw, moderated by Colin McDonald. | |||
October 15, 2015 | New York, NY | NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute: In Conversation with Suketu Mehta | United States |
Time: 3:00pm. Address: 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor. | |||
October 13, 2015 | Washington DC | Woodrow Wilson Center | United States |
Time: 12:00pm. Address: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. In conversation with Priyali Sur, a former CNN IBN correspondent and Humphrey Journalism Fellow, and Lisa Palmer, freelance journalist and former ECSP Media Fellow. | |||
October 12, 2015 | PRI’s Living on Earth | United States | |
September 30, 2015 | Charlottesville, VA | UVA Medical Center Hour | United States |
Time: 9:30am. Address: Jordan Conference Center Auditorium. | |||
September 24, 2015 | Wellfleet, MA | Wellfleet Preservation Hall | United States |
Time: 4:30pm. Address: 335 Main St.. | |||
September 11, 2015 | WNYC Leonard Lopate Show (with guest host Arun Venugopal) | United States | |
Time: 9:00am. | |||
September 9, 2015 | Falmouth, MA | Falmouth Public Library | United States |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: 300 Main Street. | |||
September 5, 2015 | Atlanta, GA | AJC Decatur Book Festival | United States |
Time: 11:15am. Endangered Lands and Livelihoods: A Conversation with Anna Badkhen | |||
September 3, 2015 | WCAI The Point with Mindy Todd | United States | |
Time: 6:00pm. | |||
September 2, 2015 | Cambridge, MA | Porter Square Books | United States |
Time: 4:00pm. Address: 25 White St. | |||
June 21, 2015 | Sausalito, California | In Conversation with Ruth DeFries / Breakthrough Dialogue | United States |
Time: 5:00pm. Address: 56 Oswald Street. |
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