Oxford Ministry for the Future: In Conversation with Richard Powers

6 November 2024 - 15:00

Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2023, Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.

Join Richard and Oxford academics for the second Oxford Ministry for the Future event.

 

Programme

15:00 – 15:50 Richard Powers in Conversation with Professor Emma Smith (Hertford College)

15:50 – 16:50 Oxford Academics join the Discussion (Professor Anette Mikes, Professor Nathalie Seddon, Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Pablo Mukherjee)

16:50 – 17:00 Q&A

 

This is a free event. To reserve your place, please register here. All welcome!

You can submit your questions to Richard Powers and the panel ahead of the event, by following this link.

 

This event is organised in partnership with Global Canopy, a data-driven non-profit that delivers transparency and accountability around the market forces driving deforestation and nature loss. http://www.globalcanopy.org