Speaking at the Ethical Humanist Society about Coyote-as-Trickster, an archetype for our times. This will broadcast Live on their YouTube channel. Click to the next page for the link.

I’ll be the keynote (via Zoom) for this amazing symposium. Have your morning coffee and listen in!

This is an online Zoom event. Come one, come all! I’ll be discussing my book, The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds, and Coyote as Trickster, an especially resonant archetype for this moment of change and social upheaval.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the relationship between inner and outer wilds, hone basic tools for attending to our senses, and make use of practical writing exercises that can awaken us to how our own stories are connected to place.

Join Dr. Gavin Van Horn as he shares readings and reflections from his recent book The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds. He will discuss how wildlife can further connect us to the importance of re-storying Chicagoland, from our backyards to the bioregion.

Join animist, wanderer, and writer Gavin Van Horn to discover how our paths are crisscrossed by the tracks and flyways of various species. Through his unique approach to storytelling, Van Horn will weave myth with science, ecological loss with abundance, and reflect on the role wildlife can play in waking us to a shared sense of place and fate.

Dr. Gavin Van Horn, the Director of Cultures of Conservation for the Center for Humans and Nature, will discuss how urban wildlife can further connect us to place and the importance of restorying Chicagoland from our backyards to the bioregion.

Join me as I discuss how shifting perceptions through nature immersion can recreate us and the habitats we share with our other-than-human neighbors.

Join me and Dean Kuipers as we discuss how nature immersion is key to our mental and social wellbeing.

I’ll be presenting on wild perception in urban areas, drawing from the books Wildness: Relations of People and Place (co-edited with John Hausdoerffer) and The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds.

Part of the Cleveland Natural History Museum’s Conservation Symposium (“Reconnecting with Nature: A Prescription for Better Health”), this panel of writers and artists will be discussing multispecies entanglement.

Photo credit: OmidGul (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds Gavin Van Horn reveals the stupendous diversity of species that can flourish in urban landscapes like Chicago. That isn't to say city living is without its challenges. Chicago has been altered dramatically over a relatively short timespan-its soils covered by concrete, its wetlands drained and refilled, its river diverted and made to flow in the opposite direction. The stories in The Way of Coyote occasionally lament lost abundance, but they also point toward incredible adaptability and resilience, such as that displayed by beavers plying the waters of human-constructed canals or peregrine falcons raising their young atop towering skyscrapers. Lunch will be Dutch Treat, $5 room fee will be charged at event.

"Unbelievably Wild: Dramatic, Embarrassing, and Wondrous Encounters with Urban Wildlife"

Come hear six storytellers recount their “unbelievably wild” urban wildlife tales. (Beer is optional. What am I saying? Beer is mandatory.)

I will be moderating a conversation between historian Ann Keating and naturalist Alex Palmer as we walk and talk about the natural history, cultural changes, and native and immigrant economies reflected in the plants of the surrounding landscape.

I will be moderating a conversation between historian Ann Keating and naturalist Alex Palmer as we walk and talk about the natural history, cultural changes, and native and immigrant economies reflected in the plants of the surrounding landscape.

Join me for a conversation with Dean Kuipers, author of The Deer Camp, at the independent bookstore City Lit. 

I will be moderating a conversation between historian Ann Keating and naturalist Alex Palmer as we walk and talk about the natural history, cultural changes, and native and immigrant economies reflected in the plants of the surrounding landscape.

Stories provide a bridge between the sciences and the humanities, offering a critical means of communicating and reflecting upon urban wildlife issues.

Photo Credit: Paul Geffen (Creative Commons)

Photo credit: Jeff Myers (Creative Commons)