What On Earth They Saying
October 4, 2020 Award-winning author and journalist Charles Siebert discusses his many experiences visiting with, and writing about, non-human animals, and what they reveal to us about themselves and us. Through his interludes with everyone from a former cellist in an all-chimpanzee circus orchestra; to an octopus escape artist; to elephant and whale ventriloquists; to traumatized orphaned parrots who heal equally traumatized war veterans, Siebert introduces us to the animal within all humans; the common biology and languages we share with other beings; and the costs of failing to ask "What On Earth Are They Saying." Speakers Charles Siebert, Professor of Practice of Literature and Creative Writing, NYUAD In Collaboration with 19 Washington Square North, NYU Abu Dhabi in New York