New Season of Spotlights!

Tara C. Trapani

The third season of our video podcast series, Forum Spotlights, launched this past Monday. You can see the first episode of the new season here on our site our on our YouTube channel

In honor of the new season, we've pulled together a topical list of episodes for the first two seasons that we hope educators and their students will find helpful. 

The majority of these are full-length episodes, but “Spotlights Clips” indicates that it is a brief excerpt from a previous episode, and “Spotlights Remix” indicates that several topical clips from different interviewees have been put together into one episode. 

 

Religious Traditions

Indigenous
1.15 Tyler Tully, University of Oxford
1.32 Sandy Bigtree (part 1), Indigenous Values Initiative
1.33 Sandy Bigtree (part 2), Indigenous Values Initiative

Judaism
1.2 Hava Tirosh Samuelson, Arizona State University
1.47 Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, Vancouver School of Theology
1.48 Spotlights Clips: Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan on Humans, Animals, and Creation
1.49 Spotlights Clips: Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, Animal Agency and the Mouth of the Donkey
2.37 Ellen Bernstein: Rabbi, Author, and Ecotheologian
2.38 Spotlights Clips: Ecology in Genesis 1 with Ellen Bernstein
2.40 Spotlights Clips: Shomreh Adamah (Keepers of the Earth), with Rabbi Ellen Bernstein

Christianity
1.34 Robin Veldman (part 1), Texas A&M University
1.35 Robin Veldman (part 2), Texas A&M University
2.25 The Spirit of Soul Food, with Christopher Carter

Islam
2.34 Huda Alkaff, Wisconsin Green Muslims
2.35 Spotlights Clips: Ecology in Islam with Huda Alkaff

Buddhism
1.8 Chris Ives, Stonehill College
1.23 Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
1.30 Dekila Chungyalpa, The Loka Initiative, Part 1
1.31 Dekila Chungyalpa, The Loka Initiative, Part 2
1.53 Spotlights Remix: Buddhism and Ecology
2.6 Mirei Takashima Claremon, Behavioral Sustainability
2.7 Spotlights Clips: Shinto and Buddhist Ecologies with Mirei Takashima Claremon
2.21 Buddhism and Place with Aaron Weiss PhD
2.24 Spotlights Clips: The Portabillity of Buddhism, with Aaron Weiss
2.32 Dan Smyer Yu, PhD, Yunnan University/University of Cologne
2.33 Spotlights Clips: Trans-Himalayan Studies with Dan Smyer Yu
2.42 Jason Wirth on Philosophy, Zen, and Ecology
2.43 Spotlights Clips: Deep Social Ecology with Jason Wirth

Hinduism
1.16 Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
1.23 Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
1.37 David Haberman (part 2), Indiana University Bloomington
1.45 Spotlights Remix: Hinduism and Ecology
2.16 Dr. Pankaj Jain, FLAME University
2.17 Spotlights Clips: Animals in India with Dr. Pankaj Jain

Shinto
2.6 Mirei Takashima Claremon, Behavioral Sustainability
2.7 Shinto and Buddhist Ecologies with Mirei Takashima Claremon

Jainism
1.23 Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
2.16 Dr. Pankaj Jain, FLAME University
2.17 Spotlights Clips: Animals in India with Dr. Pankaj Jain

Earth Spiritualities (i.e., neo-Paganism, magic, Druidism)
1.14 Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico
1.38 Susannah Crockford (part 1), Ghent University
1.39 Susannah Crockford (part 2), Ghent University
2.30 Ecology, Philosophy, and Spiritual Practice, with Dr. Simone Kotva
2.31 Magic and Ecology, with Simone Kotva, PhD

 

Topical Episodes

Climate
1.9 Episode 9, Andreas Karelas, Re-volv
1.34 Robin Veldman (part 1), Texas A&M University
1.35 Robin Veldman (part 2), Texas A&M University
1.36 David Haberman (part 1), Indiana University Bloomington
1.46 Spotlights Remix: Religion and Climate Change
1.50 Todd LaVasseur, Ph.D., College of Charleston
1.51 Spotlights Clips: Academia and Climate Change, with Dr. Todd LeVasseur
1.52 Spotlights Clips: Environmental Activism and Academia, with Dr. Todd LeVasseur

Ecojustice 
1.4 Christopher Carter, University of San Diego
1.27 Carl Anthony, Breakthrough Communities
1.28 Paloma Pavel, Earth House Center
1.43 Spotlights Remix: Critical Theory, Race, and Environmental Humanities
1.44 Spotlights Remix: Environmental Justice
2.12 A New EcoJustice Hub from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
2.13 Spotlights Clips: What is Ecojustice?
2.14 Spotlights Clips: Researching Ecojustice at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
2.25 The Spirit of Soul Food, with Christopher Carter
2.27 Spotlights Clips: Decolonial Thinking, with Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter

Gender
1.13 Jacob Erickson, Trinity College Dublin
1.10 Whitney Bauman, Florida International University
1.50 Todd LaVasseur, Ph.D., College of Charleston

Animals (including agriculture, factory farming)
1.4 Christopher Carter, University of San Diego
1.20 Timothy Harvie, St. Mary’s University
1.47 Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, Vancouver School of Theology
1.48 Spotlights Clips: Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan on Humans, Animals, and Creation
1.49 Spotlights Clips: Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, Animal Agency and the Mouth of the Donkey
2.4 Norman Wirzba, Duke University
2.17 Spotlights Clips: Animals in India with Dr. Pankaj Jain
2.25 The Spirit of Soul Food, with Christopher Carter
2.26 Spotlights Clips: Black Veganism, with Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter

Art
1.29 Maria Jaoudi, California State University
1.40 Celina Osuna, PhD, Arizona State University (Part 1)
1.41 Celina Osuna, PhD, Arizona State University (Part 2)
2.8 Art, Ecology, and Spirituality, with Nicole Dixon
2.9 Spotlights Clips: Lessons from Nature, with Nicole Dixon
2.18 Art, Nature, and Society with Johnna Arnold
2.19 Spotlights Clips: Expanding Space with Johnna Arnold

Trees
1.21 
Jason Brown, Simon Fraser University
1.37 David Haberman (part 2), Indiana University Bloomington

Water
1.18 
Elizabeth McAnally, Forum on Religion and Ecology
1.37 David Haberman (part 2), Indiana University Bloomington