![Earl Swift, journalist and author Listen to journalist Earl Swift discuss the story of a community facing extinction from climate change at these talks. A Global Futures Special Seminar — Tangier Island, Virginia: Reflecting on the Coast's First Climate Change Casualty Presented by Earl Swift Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Talk: 3–4:15 p.m. Reception and Book Signing: 4:15 p.m. Biodesign Institute Building B (BDB) B105, Tempe campus [map] Register to attend Journalist Earl Swift has written for a living since his teenage years and is author of seven books and hundreds of major features in newspapers and magazines. Swift spent 22 years as a reporter, editor, columnist, and writing coach for Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot. He was a Fulbright fellow to New Zealand in 1994 and, since 2012, has been a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia. In this talk, Swift reflects on his most recent book, Chesapeake Requiem, described as a ”brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a 200-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.” This nonfiction work was named among the best books of 2018 by National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Outside and The Smithsonian. You can also attend this talk off-campus at two additional events. Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Noon Cronkite School, Downtown Phoenix Register to attend Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7 p.m. Changing Hands Bookstore, 300 W Camelback Rd, Phoenix Register to attend](https://test-intheloop.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/f768d2655a0aa71fade41ac1ded2354f099168ffb28592d3b54fa16c9d7b7d8c.jpg)
Earl Swift, journalist and author
Listen to journalist Earl Swift discuss the story of a community facing extinction from climate change at these talks.
A Global Futures Special Seminar — Tangier Island, Virginia: Reflecting on the Coast’s First Climate Change Casualty
Presented by Earl Swift
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Talk: 3–4:15 p.m.
Reception and Book Signing: 4:15 p.m.
Biodesign Institute Building B (BDB) B105, Tempe campus [map]
Register to attend
Journalist Earl Swift has written for a living since his teenage years and is author of seven books and hundreds of major features in newspapers and magazines. Swift spent 22 years as a reporter, editor, columnist, and writing coach for Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot. He was a Fulbright fellow to New Zealand in 1994 and, since 2012, has been a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia.
In this talk, Swift reflects on his most recent book, Chesapeake Requiem, described as a ”brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a 200-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.” This nonfiction work was named among the best books of 2018 by National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Outside and The Smithsonian.
You can also attend this talk off-campus at two additional events.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Noon
Cronkite School, Downtown Phoenix
Register to attend
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
7 p.m.
Changing Hands Bookstore, 300 W Camelback Rd, Phoenix
Register to attend
