Time: 7:00pm–9:00pm
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World
The Parents’ Association of The Montclair Kimberley Academy invites you to join them on Thursday, March 3 for "Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World" a fascinating and thought-provoking evening with Dr. Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. This event, which is open to the public and free of charge, is part of PAMKA’s Academy Forum series.
Wade Davis has been described as a “ rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His recent work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, from the Arctic to Africa, from Australia to Mongolia, from Polynesia to New Guinea, living for extended periods among indigenous communities, learning and recording their complex rituals and customs, and their uses of plants as food, medicine and psychotropic agents.
Davis is the author of 14 books including The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986), One River (1996), The Clouded Leopard (1999), Light at the Edge of the World (2001), and The Lost Amazon (2004). In 2009 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures, Canada’s most prestigious intellectual forum, which were published as The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (2009).
His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series produced for the National Geographic Channel. He is one of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorer's Club, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Member and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. In 2009 he received the Gold Medal from the RCGS for his contributions to the fields of anthropology and conservation, and he is the 2011 recipient of the Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers’ Club. In fall 2011 Knopf will publish his latest book, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest.
This event will take place in The Montclair Kimberley Academy Middle School Auditorium, 201 Valley Road, Montclair, (please enter via the Brunswick Road parking lot) at 7:00 p.m. A selection of the speaker's books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Please note: there is a March 10 snow date. For more information, contact (973) 509-7997 or visit www.mka.org
