“Life in the Tar Seeps” Lecture and Book Signing

Join former Georgetown University English professor Gretchen E. Henderson for an exploration of the climate crisis, caring for overlooked ecosystems and grappling with our human imprints on earth.

“Life in the Tar Seeps” grew from associations with Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” at the Great Salt Lake in Utah as Henderson recovered from a serious automobile accident. More than a reading, her talk at Georgetown will blend photography, cinema, and field studies to invite reperceiving overlooked ecologies, not only from far afield, but wherever we are.

About the speaker:
Gretchen Ernster Henderson is a multimedia writer and interdisciplinary educator who bridges environmental arts, cultural histories, integrative sciences, health and public humanities. Her fifth book, “Life in the Tar Seeps,” has been spread across publications, exhibitions and field practices across the globe.