Elizabeth Kolbert, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change and The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, visits Ʒ on March 10 for an evening lecture sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum.
Her presentation, “Feast or Famine: Climate Change and the Future of Food,” takes place Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in McCrary Theatre.
Field Notes was a crucial contribution to national discussions on global warming, and Kolbert has continued to write about such varied topics as overfishing and the honeybee colony-collapse disorder. Kolbert is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker.
The Liberal Arts Forum is a student organization that brings guests to the Elon campus to engage campus conversations about current interdisciplinary topics. Kolbert’s appearance is in lieu of a previously scheduled visit by environmentalist Vandana Shiva, whose original March 10 presentation “Sustainability and the Global Food Crisis” has been canceled.