Please join us for The Watershed Institute's
Muriel Buttinger Lecture
with special guest speaker, Carolyn Finney
Wednesday June 9, 2021 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
You will be able to view the event from a link on our website.
The Watershed Institute welcomes Carolyn Finney, Ph.D., Scholar-in-Residence for Environmental Affairs at Middlebury College, for a virtual discussion on June 9 from 6 – 7:15 p.m.
She is a storyteller, author, and cultural geographer interested in identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. Her first book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, was released in 2014 (UNC Press). Her work aims to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action.
She has also been a visiting scholar at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She resigned from her position as an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky to devote her energies to this work.
Each year, the Watershed hosts the Muriel Buttinger Lecture in honor of benefactors Dr. Muriel and Joseph Buttinger, historic figures in their own right who hosted such notable intellectuals as physicist Albert Einstein, foreign policy leader McGeorge Bundy, poet Sir Stephen Spender, pioneering psychiatrist Ruth Mack Brunswick, and celebrated expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher.
The Buttingers donated the land and buildings to the Watershed over a period of several decades in the latter 20th century.
