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LEARN. DO. LIVE. <br /> October 11, 2024 <br /> Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series <br /> by Ali A. Onal <br /> Member-at-large <br /> This year, we have partnered with the President's Office and the Kittitas County Regional <br /> Library Boad in organizing our signature Spring event around the environmental writer, Roy <br /> Scranton, who gave a craft talk and a public reading at CWU. As part of our co-operation <br /> initiatives, Scranton also visited the Ellensburg High School and attended a Climate Panel at the <br /> Ellensburg Public Library. <br /> As part of the Living With Climate Change Series at Central Washington University, this two- <br /> day event brought awareness to the climate change and sparked lively discussions in our <br /> communities through on- and off-campus talks,readings, and panels! On 25 April 2024 morning, <br /> the Environmental Club students at the Ellensburg High School hosted Roy Scranton for a Q&A <br /> session on climate change. Scranton answered student questions and discussed the future of our <br /> planet. <br /> In the afternoon, Scranton met the CWU students at the CWU Brooks Library for a craft talk <br /> centering around Witnessing Climate Change and discussed writing as a way to sophisticate the <br /> problem of climate change. On the same day, at 6:00 pm, Scranton gave a public reading,where <br /> he delivered a lecture around his new book Ethical Pessimism: Climate Change and the Limits of <br /> Narrative. <br /> The very next day, on 26 April 2024, Friday, Roy Scranton was joined by a group of experts, <br /> academics, and community members in a discussion panel titled "Optimism and Pessimism <br /> about the Anthropocene: Is It the End of the World As We Know It?" at the CWU Public <br /> Library. Under the guidance of the Moderator Pamela McMullin-Messier, Professor and Chair of <br /> Department of Sociology,panelists shared their visions of the world in the era of climate change. <br /> Alongside Scranton were Carlyn Saunders from the KEEN (Kittitas Environmental Education <br /> Network), Jeff Hashimoto,the Science/Environmental Science teacher at Ellensburg High <br /> School, and Gwynn Scoville, a student from EHS Environment Club, Ellensburg High School. <br /> As part of the "One County, One Book" initiative,KCRLB purchased Scranton's books and <br /> distributed across member libraries in the county. <br /> All these events were organized in coordination with the President's Office, CWU Environnmental <br /> Studies,Ellensburg Public Library, Kittitas County Regional Library Board, Kittitas <br /> Environmental Education Network, and Ellensburg Public School. <br /> Department of English <br /> 400 E University Way• Ellensburg WA 98926-7558 • Office: 509-963-1546 <br /> Email: english@cwu.edu •Web: cwu.edu/english <br />