Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. He is the presenter of Fungi: Web of Life, a giant screen documentary narrated by Björk. Merlin is an honorary research associate of the University of Oxford, a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation.
A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms.
Upcoming Programs by Merlin Sheldrake
More-Than-Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries of Law, Science & Storytelling to Re-Animate the World
Also With Monica Gagliano, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Cosmo Sheldrake
Explore the ideas and actions on rights of nature that are helping re-enchant the world in a stunning natural setting with César Rodríguez-Garavito, Merlin Sheldrake, Monica Gagliano, Cosmo Sheldrake and the More-Than-Human Rights collective. What does it mean to treat animals, plants, fungi, rivers, forests, oceans, and other more-than-human beings as subjects of rights? Through […]
Science, Art, Sound & the Sacred
Also With Cosmo Sheldrake
Explore the entanglements between science, art, sound, and the sacred in a beautiful, wild setting. What we call art and science both arise from our faculties of imagination, wonder, and curiosity. We will spend part of our time outdoors – in gardens, on seashores and in forests – connecting with the more-than-human world and bringing […]