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Welcome to the new Yale Forum Blog!
We will be sharing a variety of original content including interviews, reviews, reports from the field, new and enhanced resources on the Forum website, content from our new video podcast series, FORE Spotlights, and much more.
Check back every Tuesday and Thursday for new content.
Next week, on January 18 at 7pm EST, the Climate Witness Project will be hosting a discussion with scientist Katherine Hayhoe. This virtual event is free and open to all, but you must pre-register here.
From the event site:
The Climate Witness Project is excited to host Dr. Katharine Hayhoe for a discussion of her new book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Huddle up with friends and colleagues, fellow climate advocates and...
This week's episode of Spotlights features Pankaj Jain, PhD, an internationally recognized academic leader in sustainability, Jain studies, film studies, and diaspora studies. He is the Head of the Department of Humanities & Languages and Chair of The India Centre at FLAME University. We discuss connections between dharma and ecology in Hinduism and Jainism, with particular attention to three books by Dr. Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability (Routledge, 2011), Science and Socio-...
As we shared last Thursday, the second event of the popular Orion Magazine series celebrating their new anthology, Old Growth, will take place tomorrow, January 11 at 1:00pm EST. It is free and open to all. You can register here. If you missed the first event of the series on September 18, you can find the recording here.
Last week, we shared some information on the authors who will be in conversation, but we wanted to also share some about each of the books and their perspective on and relationship to the trees, to...
On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 1:00pm EST, the Forum will co-host another conversation in the very popular online series, “On Trees.” This event is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required. From the event site: The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and Orion Magazine present a second event in a series to celebrate Orion’s new anthology, Old Growth. “On Trees” will feature a conversation between Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy,...
This episode of Spotlights features an audio excerpt from a conversation between Sam Mickey and Mirei Takashima Claremon. They discuss the the meaning of freedom and its relevance to contemporary social and environmental issues, concluding with some speculation about what a a transition to a more sustainable and just world might look like. For more information about Mirei's work, you can find the episode she did for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology podcast here.
You can watch the episode below or listen to it here...
Last week, we lost some very important figures for our world and work—biologists E. O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy, as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
E. O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy were both integral figures to the work of the Forum. E. O. Wilson was a keen supporter of the Harvard conferences ('96-'98) out of which the Forum was born. He spoke at the Judaism and Ecology conference and at the Culminating Conference at Harvard in 1998 titled “Religion, Ethics, and the Environment: An Interdisciplinary...
This week, Spotlights features a clip from our episode about the new Ecojustice hub at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, with Tara C. Trapani, Liz Burkemper, Eun Young Choi, and Leah Snavely.
Details for the full episode are available here.
You can watch the clip below or listen to it here.
An archive of previous episodes can be found here, with audio versions here and anywhere podcasts are available (e.g., Apple Podcast, Spotify, Pandora, etc.).
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In honor of the Winter Solstice, we share this moment of quiet reflection from one of our favorite poets, Mary Oliver.
White-EyesBy Mary Oliver
In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird
with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
...
This week, Spotlights features a clip from our episode about the new Ecojustice hub at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, with Tara C. Trapani, Liz Burkemper, Eun Young Choi, and Leah Snavely.
Details for the full episode are available here.
You can watch the clip below or listen to it here.
An archive of previous episodes can be found here, with audio versions available here and anywhere podcasts are available (e.g., Apple Podcast, Spotify, Pandora, etc.).
...
We at the Forum are extremely pleased to announce that our new series of online religion & ecology courses, “Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community,” was released last week from Yale University and the Coursera online learning platform. Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and a team of dedicated graduate students have been building these courses for a number of years, and we are very happy that they are finally up online and available to all.
These courses are completely free to audit (see more about...