THE NEXT BIG ONE: Animal Infections, Spillover, and the Threat of Pandemic

David Quammen
Humanities for the Environment, a Mellon Foundation grant project
Thursday, November 7, 2013 – 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Marston Exploration Theater, ISTB4 — ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration

David Quammen will present “THE NEXT BIG ONE: Animal Infections, Spillover, and the Threat of Pandemic” on Thursday, November 7, 2013 as part of the Institute for Humanities Research Andrew W. Mellon Foundation /Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes funded “Humanities for the Environment” project and Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writer Series.

David Qummen is a Former Rhodes Scholar, Lannan Foundation Fellow, and Gugenheim Fellow. He is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award and recipient of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National World Book Prize, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, and the Stephen Jay Gould Prize. Quammen’s latest work is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012).

The Humanities for the Environment (HfE) project is concerned with various aspects of environmental humanities and will be animated by questions about the role of the humanities in the age of the Anthropocene. David Quammen will be participating in the first of three workshops “Imagining Communities, Technologies, Responsibilities, and Justice in the Anthropocene.”

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This event is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, the Center for Science and Imagination, the School of Letters and Sciences, and the Vriginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.