Join the Center for 21st Century Studies on April 24 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. for its spring lecture with Kyle Whyte, George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, on “Kinship, Our Experience of Time, and Environmental Responsibility.”
The lecture will be in the Golda Meir Library’s fourth-floor conference center, and doors will open at 5 p.m.
We are often given mixed signals about the relationship between our responsibility to take action to address climate change and our sense of time. Is there a climate crisis that is so urgent that we must take whatever measures are necessary to lower carbon footprints? Or will buying too much into emotions of urgency generate hasty solutions that actually stymie progress? Some Indigenous traditions offer ethics based on responsibility and kinship that present ways in which time and ethics can be aligned, allowing us to be urgent but moral, and address the physical causes of climate change while fostering solidarity with the communities who experience climate injustice.
Dr. Whyte’s research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice and the anthropocene. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
The lecture is free, but registration is requested. Register and find more information at this webpage.
