"Loren Eiseley's 115th Birthday Reading" - Free Online Zoom Event

Online Event: Loren Eiseley's Birthday Reading

Date: Saturday, September 3, 2022

Starting Time: 2pm CDT

Zoom Connection Info: Click to check the LES Facebook Group for posted information

This month we are commemorating Loren Eiseley's 115th birthday with a celebration of his life and works.

As a public forum presented by the Loren Eiseley Society, LES will offer a birthday reading and light discussion via Zoom on Saturday, Sep. 3, at 2pm Central Time. All are welcome to join us!

Feel free to bring a favorite poem or short passage from his writings to share at our Zoom event.

Also, we would like you to know that we have a $15,000 challenge grant for The Star Thrower musical dramatization and we will be mentioning this at the birthday reading on how you can contribute.

For information on how to log in, check the Loren Eiseley Facebook Group or email hello@eiseley.org

"Loren Eiseley and the Subterranean World" with Susan Maher

Online Event: Loren Eiseley and the Subterranean World with Susan Maher

Date: Saturday, June 25, 2022

Starting Time: 2pm CDT

Zoom Connection Info: Click to check the LES Facebook Group for posted information

The Loren Eiseley Society invites you to attend our next Public Forum via Zoom on Saturday, June 25th at 2 PM CDT.  Our special guest is Susan Maher, PhD and her topic will be  “Loren Eiseley and the Subterranean World.” All are welcome to join us!

For information on how to log in, check the Loren Eiseley Facebook Group or email hello@eiseley.org

Across Loren Eiseley’s oeuvre, revelations about science, humanity, and the natural world often happen in subterranean spaces. Whether exploring deep time or more personal, psychological disturbances, Eiseley is drawn to tunnels, cellars, culverts, and caves. In the dark, he probes connections between past and present, collapsing time and space into lyrical encounters with all manner of life forms, whether fossilized or living. His essays, often journeys in the dark, uncover truths about life, death, and the boundless realms of the human imagination.

Susan Maher co-edited “Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley” with Tom Lynch. Her book “Deep Map Country” also includes a chapter on Eiseley. She has published widely on Great Plains writers, including Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, and John Janovy, Jr. Her current book project is “Authoring Landscapes: Literary Pilgrimage in the Interior of North America.” She is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

"Animals in Me" with Qianqian Cheng

Online Event: Animals in Me with Qianqian Cheng

Date: Saturday, March 26, 2022

Starting Time: 2pm CDT

Zoom Connection Info: Click to check the LES Facebook Group for posted information

This month we are inviting Qianqian Cheng to present a talk entitled "Animals in Me: The ecological implications in Eiseley’s thoughts".

As a public forum presented by the Loren Eiseley Society, LES will offer a presentation and discussion via Zoom on Saturday, March 26, at 2pm Central Time. All are welcome to join us!

For information on how to log in, check the Loren Eiseley Facebook Group or email hello@eiseley.org

Qianqian's talk offers a concise analysis of how Eiseley fosters readers' ecological consciousness by focusing on the bonds between humans and nonhumans; and the reason why Eiseley needs to be appreciated as a necessary voice in the urgent mission to make individuals realize their responsibility to respond ethically to the living world. 

Qianqian Cheng obtained her PhD in English from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. She has taught English at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Chinese at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She has published articles on animal studies as well as on Loren Eiseley.