A symposium offering alternative approaches to environmentalism’s overly econometric, scientific and anti-metaphysical worldview.  Ecology must tend to location, ethics and cosmology as mutually imbricating, question the contestatory perspective of scarcity-based models and reconnect mind, spirit and body; human, non-human and technological worlds; ethics, politics, science, and religion. Featuring David Abram, Irene Diamond, Andrew Revkin, David Rothenberg, and Rhonda Roland Shearer.

Speakers include:
David Rothenberg, “Animal Beauty: Art, Science, and Evolution”
Rhonda Roland Shearer, “Misrepresenting Other Places: Jared Diamond, New Guinea Tribes and the Harm of Scholarly Irresponsibility”
David Abram, “On Language and the Ecology of Sensory Experience”
Irene Diamond, “Governing Within an Evolving Earth”
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, respondent
Andrew Revkin, respondent (tentative)
Jonathan Schorsch, moderator  Sponsored with the Department of Religion.