Next week, JHU Press will host two special programs in our lunch and lecture series at the Johns Hopkins Club on the university’s Homewood campus. Descriptions are below, along with links to more information about the books and authors. Reservations are required, and the cost is $20 per person for each lunch and talk. Books will be for sale before and after the programs, and the authors will be signing copies. Hopkins Club members may contact the Club to make a reservation; non-members may arrange to attend by contacting Jack Holmes at JHU Press at 410-516-6928 or [email protected].
November 3 / 12:30 p.m.
Lunch & Lecture: “Indians of Southern Maryland”
with MdHS author Rebecca Seib
An important new book from the Maryland Historical Society Press tells the story of Southern Maryland’s Native people from the end of the Ice Age to the present. Rebecca Seib, a cultural anthropologist and one of the book’s authors, joins us to explore this remarkable history of human and environmental change, adaptation and survival, and the surprising truths beyond the stereotypes.
Read more about the book here. Rebecca’s coauthor, Helen Rountree, discussed the book on WYPR earlier this year.
Rebecca Seib is an applied anthropologist and has worked with Indian people throughout the United States for over 30 years. She has assisted Indian communities in rebuilding their economies in a culturally appropriate manner.
November 4 / 12:30 p.m.
Lunch & Lecture: “Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift”
with JHU Press author Mott Greene
Written with great immediacy and descriptive skill, Mott Greene’s new biography of Alfred Wegener is a powerful portrait of the scientist who discovered continental drift and pioneered the modern notion of unified Earth science. Wegener deserves to be much better known, and Prof. Greene (a MacArthur fellow and award-winning historian of science) joins us to tell a fascinating story of a wonderfully adventurous life and the ongoing impact of one of the great minds of modern science.
Read more about the book and watch a video with Mott here. Read an amazing review of the book in the journal Nature.
Mott T. Greene is an affiliate professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington and John Magee Professor of Science and Values emeritus at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing View of a Changing World and Natural Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity.
