5th ANNUAL LEOPOLD LECTURE 2024
Dan Flores
“Golden-Eyed Lightning Rod: A Wolf Story"
Dan Flores
“Golden-Eyed Lightning Rod: A Wolf Story"
7 September 2024 | 2:00pm
Main Library Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM
Main Library Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM
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DAN FLORES is a Santa Fe-area writer originally from Louisiana who spent much of his career as a University of Montana professor. The author of 11 books, he has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Time Magazine. Along with appearances on Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown and Joe Rogan’s podcasts, Flores was also featured in Ken Burns's 2023 American Buffalo documentary.
His most recent books are American Serengeti, winner of the Stubbendieck Distinguished Book Prize in 2017; Coyote America, a New York Times Bestseller, winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Prize, and Finalist for the 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; and Wild New World, winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Prize, winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, and Finalist for Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize. Listen to Dan Flores discuss Wild New World on RadioWest here. Listen to Dan Flores discuss Coyote America on NPR's Morning Edition here. THE LECTURE drew inspiration from Dan Flores's award-winning book, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in North America, and discussed wolf evolution beginning with the role the animals played in Native America and Europe and concluding with the 20th-century battle between the U.S. Biological Survey, charged with wolf erasure, and the new science brandished by ecologists. Starting with the Old World hatred of wolves centered on 8,000 years of herding and a religious conviction that wolves were a malediction resulting from Adam's "fall" from the Garden, the lecture explored the mythology of the wolf and the stories we have told ourselves about the wolf-human relationship. |
