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Past Events

Date City Venue Country
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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