As a basic building block of systems theory, the concept of a watershed defines and divides; it also unifies. While researching her book “Amity & Prosperity, One Family and the Fracturing of America,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Eliza Griswold, journalist and director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton, spent seven years reporting inside a watershed made up of concerned citizen-scientists, farmers, and families contending with the unintended consequences of unconventional oil and gas development. Griswold explored the realities and metaphors of the intergenerational industrial landscape and how it has formed community in towns like Amity and Prosperity, Pennsylvania.

In this talk, Griswold will use the concept of watershed as a point of departure. She wil be joined in conversation by Shoko Yamada, assistant professor of anthropology at Sophia University, Japan and Jim Waltman, executive director of The Watershed Institute, New Jersey.

Free and open to the public. Join us in the Briger Hall Auditorium or stream it live. 

Presented as part of the Watershed Governance in Motion workshop, an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss communities joined and divided by watersheds.