Erin Zimmerman Author Talk & Signing

Name: Erin Zimmerman Author Talk & Signing
Start: 2024-08-04T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-08-04T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9

Schedule

Sun Aug 04 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9 | Montreal, QC

𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 presents an author talk and signing for 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐙𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐔𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝑼𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒅: 𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒚, 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.
Join us as evolutionary biologist, science writer and essayist 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐙𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 dicusses and signs her new book 𝑼𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒅.
Admission is free.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:
“Evolutionary botanist Zimmerman discusses her passion for plants and inveighs against sexism in the sciences in her marvelous debut memoir…Throughout, Zimmerman’s enthusiasm and expertise make the science accessible even to those without a background in the subject. The results are as edifying as they are galvanizing.” – Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
“Erin Zimmerman has exposed a rooted gender failure in science. Her book is important not for this alone. Her work is essential for understanding the future resilience of all flora on this planet.” -Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees
An exploration of science, motherhood, and academia, and a stirring account of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads . . .
Growing up in rural Ontario, Erin Zimmerman became fascinated with plants—an obsession that led to a life in academia as a professional botanist. But as her career choices narrowed in the face of failing institutions and subtle, but ubiquitous, sexism, Zimmerman began to doubt herself.
Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science is a scientist’s memoir, a glimpse into the ordinary life of someone in a fascinating field. This is a memoir about plants, about looking at the world with wonder, and about what it means to be a woman in academia—an environment that pushes out mothers and those with any outside responsibilities. Zimmerman delves into her experiences as a new mom, her decision to leave her position in post-graduate research, and how she found a new way to stay in the field she loves.
She also explores botany as a “dying science” worth fighting for. While still an undergrad, Zimmerman’s university started the process of closing the Botany Department, a sign of waning funding for her beloved science. Still, she argues for its continuation, not only because we have at least 100,000 plant species yet to be discovered, but because an understanding of botany is crucial in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.
Zimmerman is also a botanical illustrator and will provide 8 original illustrations for the book.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑:
Erin Zimmerman is an evolutionary biologist turned science writer and essayist. She has a bachelor’s degree in plant biology and physics from the University of Guelph and postgraduate studies in fungal genetics and molecular systematics from the Université de Montréal’s biodiversity institute. For her doctoral research, she traveled to South American to collect plant specimens, and worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Zimmerman has published 9 academic papers, as well as numerous essays that have appeared in publications like Smithsonian Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Undark, and Narratively.