Lecture: Beauty in a Broken World

Date/Time:	Saturday, 30 Jan 2010 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
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"Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World," author Terry Tempest Williams. Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge, a classic in environmental literature. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out on behalf of an ethical stance toward life.

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Williams has testified before Congress on women's health issues, camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda. Her publications include An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her most recent book is Finding Beauty in a Broken World.

Williams's many awards and achievements include a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, and the Wallace Stegner Award from the Center for the American West.

Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination and the Eco-Voices Series.

Photo by Mark Bagushkin.