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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.
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...
This week's episode of Spotlights features a new hub for EcoJustice research and advocacy at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology:
Our guests are the four people comprising the team that put these resources together, including the following: Tara C. Trapani, the Chief Administrator of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Liz Burkemper & Eun Young Choi, both Master of Arts in Religion students at Yale Divinity School, and Leah Snavely, a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School.
You...
Today we offer a poem in celebration of the changing seasons. Wishing you peace and joy during this transition from autumn to winter.
“Falling Leaves and Early Snow”
By Kenneth Rexroth
In the years to come they will say,
“They fell like the leaves
In the autumn of nineteen thirty-nine.”
November has come to the forest,
To the meadows where we picked the cyclamen.
The year fades with the white frost
On the brown sedge in the hazy meadows,
Where the deer...
This is a clip from the episode of Spotlights featuring Mallory McDuff, PhD, a teacher and writer at Warren Wilson College. She discusses the importance of talking about death, reflecting on her latest book, Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love (Broadleaf Books, 2021).
The music at the introduction and conclusion of the clip comes from the song “You Carry My Love,” by Elizabeth Teague.
You can watch the clip below or listen to it here.
You can find...