Speaker Series

Oneness and Ecology

Part 1 of The New Discourse on Oneness

March 1, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Mary Evelyn Tucker

Yale University

Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and affiliated faculty with the Yale Center for Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment. Her books include The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia University Press), Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press), and Ecology and Religion (Island Press). Along with her husband and colleague John Grim, she has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Religion, Nature, and Culture.

Norman Wirzba

Duke University

Norman Wirzba is Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow for the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World (Cambridge University Press) and Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (University of Notre Dame Press).

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.