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Sensing Together: A More-than-Human Community with Gavin Van Horn

Friday, September 25, 2026 5-7 p.m.

Side-by-side promotional graphic. Left: The cover of the book "Sensoria: Attending to the wonder and vitality of nature," edited by Bruce Jennings & Gavin Van Horn, featuring bold vertical text over a colorful, kaleidoscopic pattern of flowers, plants, and natural elements. Right: A outdoor selfie of a smiling man with a graying beard, wearing a baseball cap, gray t-shirt, and backpack on a dirt trail in a rocky, mountainous landscape.
Location:
Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability
For:
Open to the Public

Join us for an evening with Humans & Nature Press’s Gavin Van Horn, as we celebrate and discuss their newest bookSensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature

This timely volume offers readers new ways of understanding relations in everyday encounters that link our inner and outer awareness—embodied experiences that shape what we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell, and the way these perceptions can help us to attend more closely and respectfully to the lifeworlds of other-than-human creatures.

After a presentation, reading, and Q&A, Gavin and other contributors will be on hand to sign books.

Gavin Van Horn, PhD, is the executive editor of Humans & Nature Press Books, the author of The Way of Coyote, and the coeditor of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago WildernessWildness: Relations of People and Place, the five-volume series Elementals, and the award-winning five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. He currently resides in the ancestral lands of the Northern Chumash people in San Luis Obispo, California, where you can find him wandering the nearby hills and shores, senses awakened by black sage, Anna’s hummingbirds, and ocean funk. More about Gavin and his work can be found at www.storyforager.com.