Wendell Berry Receives Marty Award

Wendell Berry will be honored at this year’s Annual Meeting as the recipient of the 2013 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Awarded annually since 1996, the Marty Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the public understanding of religion. The award goes to those whose work has a relevance and eloquence that speaks not just to scholars, but to the broader public as well.

As a novelist, poet, essayist, and public intellectual, Berry has provided a powerful voice in promoting values that extol land, critique the culture of late capitalism, and support human rights. Berry is the author of more than 40 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In 2012, Berry, who has taught at Stanford, Georgetown, and New York Universities, delivered the National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture, the most prestigious honor that the U.S. federal government confers for intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Please join us at the AAR Annual Meeting in Baltimore for a conversation with Wendell Berry on Sunday, November 24, 2013, from 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. He will be interviewed by Norman Wirzba of Duke University. The conversation, sponsored by the AAR Public Understanding of Religion Committee, will be held in the Baltimore Convention Center, room 307–308.