Generativity: A Leopoldian Earth Ethic

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With Julianne Lutz Warren

The Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Julianne Lutz Warren. The author of Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey, Julianne will be speaking on Monday, February 2nd at 4:30pm (ISPS, 77 Prospect St., room B012). Her talk, “Generativity: A Leopoldian Earth Ethic,” addresses the themes of uncertainty and hope in environmental ethics and is part of the Environmental Ethics Speaker Series. For your convenience, you can read Julianne’s bio below:

“Julianne Warren is author of Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey, an intellectual biography tracing the historical development of Leopold’s land health concept. Her other writings and presentations explore human orientations within Earth’s community of communities to discover what may be mutually life-enhancing. Presently, Julianne is working on an interdisciplinary environmental studies text. This narrative raises questions about the emergence of the Anthropocene, movements of human responsibility, and hope for new generations of young people. Her other work-in-progress is a triptych of volumes exploring Earth’s generativity. In these she contemplates  ruins through the song of an extinct bird; reconstructs  historic utopian models to reflect ecological care; and, inspired by a thirty thousand year old flowering fruit, interrogate s  evolutionary and cultural strategies for beginning, and beginning again. For five years, Julianne taught at New York University where she won a 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award for her work with students in the climate justice movement. She  holds a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology and conservation biology from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Julianne currently serves as a Fellow with the Center for Humans and Nature.” (from Julianne’s website, http://www.coyotetrail.net/).

For additional information, contact Matt Riley at matthew.riley@yale.edu

View the poster: http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/JLwarren.pdf

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