The Eco-Age Research Group at the University of Graz is delighted to announce a guest lecture by Prof. Claudia J. Ford, PhD.
The event is hosted in collaboration with the DAAD-funded research project European Societal Challenges in German Culture: Exploring Ageing and Climate Change in Tandem
Abstract:
The climate emergency raises challenging questions about human behavior with strong moral and ethical dimensions. Planetary thinking, as opposed to predominant global political preoccupations, marks a paradigm shift. A shift that requires our understanding of this moment in Earth history as a time to recognize that humans play a critical species-specific role in this environmental transition. We have unique responsibilities for accomplishing the task of making sacred our ideas about nature and the human, for deeply understanding our relationships to ourselves, each other, nature, and the cosmos - our zoetic entanglements - a balance of care that is essential to the well-being of the whole living network. In order to guide human society to establish an ethical framework of environmental care this lecture examines African American women’s wisdom at the intersections of ecology, culture, and spirituality and as revealed within African American literature.
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