Take part in a lively discussion about Sounds Wild and Broken, by David George Haskell,  professor of biology and environmental studies at Tennessee’s University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow.

From the publisher’s website:

“Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament.”

Date: Sunday, August 25

Time: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.  

Location: online meeting; registration required 

Cost: free for FOCC members; $5 donation appreciated for non-members

Age: 12 and up

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