Events
Upcoming
NEW YORK: FILMS OF THE NATURAL WORLD
“Join us for an evening celebrating nature, animal life, and the sights and sounds of the natural world! We’ll gather for a screening of a few shorts and then enjoy pizza and refreshments.”
Thursday, May 25 7 – 10pm EDT
New York, New York
HAY FESTIVAL
“Hay Festival seeks to inspire, examine and entertain with sustainable events and projects around the world. Offering innovative platforms to discover new ideas, Hay Festival invites audiences to imagine the world as it is and as it might be. It is a catalyst for change and a community that is open and accessible to everyone.”
May 25 – June 4th, 2023
Wales, UK
ALTERNATIVES
Join award-winning author Professor Karen Bakker as she guides you through the resonant mysteries of nature’s sounds.
Monday, June 5, 2023 – 6:00 to 7:30pm
Hosted at Regent’s University, London, UK.
CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL
“The world’s greatest scientists help answer big questions at Cheltenham Science Festival”
Located at Imperial Gardens, June 6-11, 2023
EARTH TALK WITH DARTINGTON TRUST
Delve into the wondrous world of nature’s hidden sounds—and the intriguing future of interspecies communication.
Located at the Dartington Estate from 8 – 9.30pm on Wednesday 7 June 2023
AFTER DARK: THE SOUNDS OF LIFE
“If we could listen to the secret language of the natural world, what would we hear? Tonight, learn about the scientists studying this question and their astonishing findings about the hidden sounds of nature. We now know that many animals—and even some plants—once thought to be silent have actually been communicating and conversing all this time. Tonight, inspired by the recent book The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker, we will listen to these secret sounds, and learn about the scientists tracking them… ”
June 15 2023, 6-10pm PST
Hosted by the San Francisco Exploratorium
SCRIPPS NEWS: IN REAL LIFE - VOICES OF NATURE + Q&A
Saturday, June 17 at 5:30pm EST
Screened at The MovieHouse (Millerton, NY)
Presenting Scripps News Longform’s original documentary, In Real Life: Voices of Nature, which will feature a Q&A with Director & Scripps News correspondent Sam Eaton, and guests Joshua Zeman (The Loneliest Whale) & David Rothenberg (Whale Music).
PAST EVENTS
TED POSSIBILITIES CONFERENCE
Possibility Conference; April 17-21, 2023 in Vancouver, BC
HARVARD CLUB
Harvard Club; April 11th
Member Activity
February 21st; Private Event
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
This presentation explores these developments and discusses their potential not only to extend humanity’s relationship with nature but also to underscore the urgency of preserving biodiversity.
DLD MUNICH 23
DLD is a global media and conference network on innovation, digitization, science and culture. January 12-14th. (Watch here)
WWF PANDAS & PROSE
January 2023; Hosted by WWF, author Karen Bakker and WWF’s Global Data and Technology Lead Scientist Dave Thau have a conversation.
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE AT HARVARD
Radcliffe Institute at Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) on February 8th, 2023
FUTURE TENSE
“A global pandemic treaty; communication vulnerabilities; and talking to the animals”
FINANCIAL TIMES
FT Weekend Festival, May 20
In-Person and Digital, the REACH at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C
LIFEWORLD
“The bigger implication is that it may be that every single organism alive is sensitive to sound. And they may be more sensitive than us, because in the case of coral larva, they are listening with their entire bodies.” -Karen Bakker
KUOW'S THE WILD
“We could be talking to animals in the next year using AI. But are we ready?”
INTERSPECIES INTERNET
Listening Across the Tree of Life: December 3, 2022 at 11:00 am EST (Listen here!)
NEWSY'S IN THE LOOP
“Artificial Intelligence could help humans talk to pets”
SCIENCE FRIDAY'S SCIFRI BOOK CLUB
Starting November 1st (Register here)
MANY MINDS
“[The Sounds Of Life] is really bursting with insight, science, and stories—all presented with unusual clarity.”
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN'S SCIENCE QUICKLY
“The burgeoning field of “digital bioacoustics” is helping us understand animals like never before.”
IDEAS PODCAST
“Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?”
SECRET SCIENCE CLUB
On December 1, join us on Zoom with Karen Bakker of the Smart Earth Project with The Sounds of Life. (Watch here!)
KUOW'S SOUNDSIDE
“How technology is mapping the unheard conversations of the natural world…”
JOHN FUGELSANG PODCAST
“This week John is broadcasting from California…interview[ing] Karen Bakker, author of “The Sounds of Life – How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants”. They talk about the secret world of sound and how other species communicate”
EARTH SPECIES PROJECT
A presentation on decoding animal language by Aza Raskin, followed by a panel discussion hosted at the World Economic Forum in San Francisco on October 25, 2022 exploring how AI is expanding our ability to understand other species and the benefits and potential challenges that this new understanding will bring.
(Watch here)
THE JEFFERSON EXCHANGE
“Technology has expanded our ability to detect the sounds of living things, even when they are inaudible to humans”
FUTURE PROOF WITH JONATHAN MCCREA
“Jonathan is joined by Karen Bakker, Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and author of ‘The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants’ to explore the sounds in nature that we cannot hear.”
(Listen here)
SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES TALK
Smithsonian Associates talk (Washington, DC) on November 3, 2022 at 6:45pm EST (Register here)
4ZZZ NEWS BRISBANE
“4ZZZ Reporter Anita Diamond spoke with Professor Karen Bakker of UBC and fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study on how scientists are using A.I to talk to animals”
KEEN ON
“A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees”
(Watch here)
PLANT YOURSELF
“What do you get when you combine a reverential attitude toward the natural world with a high-tech approach to problem solving?”
Listen on the blog, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Youtube
THE URBAN BIRDER
Virtual Event on Thursday January 26th, at 7pm GST (Register here)
TALK NERDY
Sounds of Nature with Karen Bakker (and Cara Santa Maria)
(Listen here)
TOWNHALL SEATTLE
Town Hall Seattle (Seattle, Washington) on Monday, October 24, 2022 (Register Here)
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL
University of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec) on November 17th, 2022
SCIENCE ON TAP
Science on Tap (Portland, Oregon) on Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022 at 7pm EST (Register here)
CBC SPARK
“Explore the tech that helps us understand the language of plants and animals, and how it may hold the key to protecting biodiversity”