Actress Rosario Dawson will visit Madison April 22 to give a keynote lecture focusing on America’s shifting demographics and environmental development in the coming years as part of the eighth annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference, according to a university news release.
While Dawson is known as an activist for both women’s rights and environmental issues, her Earth Day Conference lecture will center on humans’ interaction with nature, according to the release.
More specifically, she will speak about “the age of humans” and people’s effects on the environment in the way of depleting atmospheric gases, using up natural resources and expending land, according to the release.
The conference will also feature British science fiction writer China Miéville, ecologist Erle Ellis and director of the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences Kevin Noone.
The event will be held at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. It will be open to the public, though registration is required.
