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EMMA Talks: Rebecca Solnit

February 17, 2016


A talk from writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit on heroism, its origins, and its criteria, highlighting the kindness of common people and their possibility to change the world. This event was put on by EMMA Talks, a public speakers series of talks from inspiring women.

Speaker Bio

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including two atlases, of San Francisco in 2010 and, New Orleans in 2013; Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a contributing editor to Harper’s.

Presented by

SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU School of Communication, and Emma Talks

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