Integral Ecology in Action: A Decade of Laudato Si

10April
9:00AM - 3:00PM
McLaren Complex 251
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The Lane Center’s Laudato Si Research Collaborative (2024-2025) celebrates the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical on integral ecology, Laudato Si. This conference is the culmination of faculty’s interdisciplinary research projects which interpret, expand, critically engage, and enact Pope Francis’s vision of an integral ecology.

Morning Session 1 (9:15am-10:45am)

Rethinking Ecology and Economy: Indigenous Values, Law, and Environmental Justice 

  • Jorge Aquino, “Laudato Si and the Quest for a Planetary Eco-Socialism”
  • Dana Zartner, “Standing for Nature: Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice”
  • Seth Wachtel, “Future Gardens: Regenerative, Youth Oriented Tribal Landscapes”
  • Alexii Sigona (and Adrienne Johnson), “Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), Social Relations, and Access: De-centering Property in Environmental Governance for Non-federally Recognized Tribes”

 

Morning Session 2 (11:00am - 12:30pm)

Designing Solutions for an Integral Ecology 

  • Kelly L’Engle, “Motivating and Empowering Youth Climate Activism: Hope Is More Powerful Than Fear”
  • Andrew Hobbs, “Mapping Global Climate Risk in Agriculture”
  • Stephanie Siehr and Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, “From Individual to Collective Change: Design for Systems Thinking and Songs for Climate Action” 

 

Afternoon Session 3 (1:30pm - 2:30pm)

Integral Ecology Roundtable with Students & Faculty

 

Register by April 1, 2025. 

Co-sponsored by the One Earth Initiative. 

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