An Evening with Emily St. John Mandel

For this year’s Bale Boone Symposium, an annual event spotlighting distinguished artists and public intellectuals, University of Kentucky’s Gaines Center for the Humanities will host the award-winning author of several acclaimed books, including “Station Eleven,” which was featured in the New York Times “Best Books of the 21st Century” as both a critic and reader’s choice, and was adapted to an HBO limited series. The moderated conversation will focus on the role of humanities in a world navigating climate change, global pandemics and fracturing leadership; a book signing will follow. The event is free but reservationsare recommended.

6 p.m. Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center, 350 N. Broadway transytickets.ticketspice.com/gainesctr-emilystjohnmandel