Join the Out of Eden Walk as they assemble longtime friends from all over the world to celebrate ten years of slow storytelling.  Each session will share from the perspective of journalists, educators, and photographers who have collaborated with the Out of Eden Walk, from Ethiopia to China.  

9:00 - 9:30
Paul Salopek, “Introduction to Out of Eden Walk - Walking & Listening Along a 38,000-km Trail”

9:30 - 10:30
John Stanmeyer, “Photographing a 10-Year Walk Across the Planet”

10:30 - 11:30
Arati Kumar-Rao, “Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink”

11:30 - 13:00    
Don Belt, “Walk Slowly, Look Deeply: A Journey into Foot-Level Storytelling”
followed by an hour long learning walk across campus

The Out of Eden Walk is a global storytelling project through which Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, National Geographic Explorer, and Documentary Center, Shanghai Media Group (SMG) foreign expert Paul Salopek is retracing our human ancestors’ ancient migration on foot and across the globe. His 38000 kilometer (24000 mile) multiyear odyssey began in Ethiopia—our evolutionary “Eden”—in January 2013 and will end at the tip of South America. In October 2021, Salopek embarked on the “Middle Kingdom” chapter of this journey through China, beginning from the southern border in Yunnan province, walking over 6000 kilometers along the transversal Hu line, and continuing through China’s northern frontier with Russia.  www.outofedenwalk.org

In English with Chinese interpretation.

Free and open to the public.

Registration is required. (If you cannot open the "Register" button link, please try eu.jotform.com/231302223511133, or email shanghai.ica@nyu.edu with your name and phone number to register.)

Please enter through NYU Shanghai’s main entrance at 567 West Yangsi Road.

In conjunction with the exhibition Walking China: Stories yet to be told

The exhibition will be open to public visitors on Sunday, 21 May from 10:00 - 17:00.