Date: Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, from 12:15-1:45PM  EST

Location: Zoom

Series: Religion and Climate

Speakers: Adriana Petryna (University of Pennsylvania) and Mareike Winchell (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Moderator: Raffaella Taylor-Seymour (Columbia University) 

IRCPL’s Religion and Climate series is animated by calls to reimagine human relationships with and responsibilities to the environment in an age of planetary crisis. As the impact of climate change is increasingly but unevenly felt, religion is emerging as a site of epistemological doubt, struggle, and possibility. This series will explore the cosmological underpinnings that shape diverse understandings of the environment and examine how religious subjects react to and act upon the ecological upheavals they face, challenging exclusively technocratic or secular responses to the climate crisis. The series will begin with four events structured around the elements—Earth, Fire, Water, and Air—each of which will take one element as a lens for engaging with specific climate struggles and the religious debates they ignite. In the next event, an online program on the theme of “Fire,” Adriana Petryna (University of Pennsylvania) and Mareike Winchell (London School of Economics and Political Science) will discuss their work on wildfires in the United States and Bolivia, exploring both the political-theological dimensions of fire and complexities of taking action to prevent environmental disasters.

Free and open to the public

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