UMNH Community Book Conversations
Join members of the Salt Lake City community to discuss the natural history and environmental topics covered in an ever-changing list of books. The UMNH Book Conversation is one of the few non-fiction discussion groups in our community.
Sometimes experts within relevant fields join in to provide us with a real-world perspective. Othertimes, we passionately exchange ideas as curious adults and citizens! Everyone is welcome to join in whichever book interests you the most!
UMNH Book Club meets at the Mill at Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park. Light refreshments served.
Suggested donation of $5 per person -- FREE for UMNH Members and Tracy Aviary Members.
Pre-registration is appreciated at 801.581.5567, by Email or on Facebook -- but drop-ins are welcome!
Read any of these books?
Join the conversation anytime on the Online Book Conversation on the UMNH Book Talk Blog.
UMNH Book Club 2009 Reading List
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Monday, April 6, 2009
Did you attend Thomas Friedman's lecture in Salt Lake City? Join the community conversation around the ideas presented in his recent book and presentation. What has stuck with you? What made sense? What does it mean within our own local and state community?
View a video of a similar presentation on the Thomas Friedman website
Nature of Things 2009 Lecture Schedule
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The End of Food by Paul Roberts
Monday, July 13
Summer Harvest Night!
Guest Facilitator: Christi Paulson, director of Slow Food Utah
Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched account, Roberts indentifies the forces that are undermining our capacity to produce food that is safe, nourishing, or adequate to meet the appetites of a rapidly growing population. Readers will see not only how our food systems are breaking down--but how they can be put back on a sustainable course.
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The Gift of Good Land: Essays by Wendell Berry
Monday, September 21
Special Guests: Amy Wldemuth, University of Utah law professor, and Todd Wildemuth
Wendell Berry's further essays on culture and agriculture is now available at bookstores. Originally published in 1981, it has been released and is as fresh and relevant today as it was in its first run.
The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah, brought Berry to Utah in March 2009 as the keynote for the Stenger Symposium. Stegner representatives will join the conversation to discuss why Berry is a continuation of Stegner's legacy, how culture and agriculture relate to the larger issues of land and resources, and to bring a Western perspective to Berry's writing.
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Dry Storeroom #1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Monday, November 9
The delightful memoir takes us behind the "employees only" doors of THE Natural History Museum of London, originally part of the British Museum. The author, Richard Fortey, who has been the "trilobite man" at "the BM" since the 1970's has a remarkable, wry take on the many people, collections, nooks and crannies that make up a world-class institution.
Dry Storeroom #1 is now available in paperback. Several UMNH staff members and others from the University with a penchant for archiving are reading the book. We look forward to sharing equally engaging stories about our own natural history museum at the November discussion!
Follow the Discussion at UMNH Book Talk Blog
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Each Book Group Discussion Takes Place at:
The Mill at Tracy Aviary -- enter Liberty Park from 900 South & 600 East
From: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Suggested donation of $5 per person/ FREE for Members of UMNH and Tracy Aviary
UMNH Book Discussion titles can be purchased at the Museum Store or at your local Bookseller; UMNH Members receive a discount on purchases from the Museum Store. Want to help get the online discussion going? Email us
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