The 2024-25 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues continues with “The Amazing Nature of Animal Senses,” featuring science journalist and bestselling author Ed Yong.
The free public lecture is 6:30 p.m. March 25 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The event is sponsored by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Tickets can be reserved through the Lied Center here, by calling 402-472-4747 or by visiting the Lied’s box office, 301 N. 12th St. The event is general admission, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Yong is the author of two bestselling books — “An Immense World,” about the sensory worlds of other animals, and “I Contain Multitudes,” about the partnerships between animals and microbes. He was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and his TED talk on parasites has been watched by more than 2 million people. In 2024, Yong was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In his lecture, he will discuss the hidden realms of animal senses, highlighting ways in which other animals perceive aspects of the world to which humans are oblivious. For more information on Yong, click here.
The 2024-25 E.N. Thompson season is organized around the theme “Lessons from the Natural World” and explores the beauty, wonder and wisdom of our living planet and vast universe.
The series opened Sept. 24 with a lecture by bestselling author Amy Tan and continued with a nature journaling workshop led by author, editor and professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil on Oct. 17-18. It concludes with a lecture by astrophysicist, author, science communicator and planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson on April 22 at the Lied Center. For more information on the series, including how to obtain tickets, click here. A $10 discount to the Tyson lecture is available with code FORUM10; seats are limited.
The E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, Lied Center and University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The series was established in 1988 with the purpose of bringing a diversity of viewpoints on international and public policy issues to the university and people of Nebraska to promote understanding and encourage discussion.
