March 26 - 28, 2020 | Duke University
Leading scholars in political economy, history, anthropology, theology, philosophy, environmental humanities, and law examine the conditions under which a hopeful future might be imagined.
Hope for a Planet in Peril
March 26
6:30pm – Welcome
6:45 – 8:15pm – Norman Wirzba: “No Hope Without Forgiveness? On Facing a Planet in Peril”
8:15-9pm – Reception
March 27
9-10:30am – Alyssa Battistoni
11-12:30pm – Tim Ingold: From Creation to Creativity and Back Again: The Rebirth of an Idea
2-3:30pm – Janet Soskice
4-5:30pm – Willie Jennings
March 26
9-10:30am – Joyce Chaplin: “The Franklin Stove: Heat and Life in the Little Ice Age”
11-12:30pm – Doug Kysar: “It’s Not the Planet that is in Peril”
2-3:30pm – Kate Rigby: “Let There Be Night: Remembering Creation in an Era of Extinctions”
4-5:30pm – Willis Jenkins
5:30-6pm – Concluding Conversation
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