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Guestbook presents: "Hosting Earth" - Symposia and Conference, Spring 2022

The Hosting Earth Project engages the question of ecological hospitality by asking what it means to be guests of the earth as well as hosts. In our current climate emergency, it challenges the anthropocentrism of western culture which celebrates the sovereign human subject as ‘master and possessor of nature’ (Descartes). But what if we experience the natural world as a place which holds and hosts us – animals, trees, plants, birds, mountains, rivers and seas? What if we see ‘brother sun and sister moon’ as nourishing us with their cosmic vitality? In short, what happens if we reverse the conventional model of hospitality and acknowledge a ‘double sensation’ of hosting-hosted: a reciprocity principle which signals an ecological interspecies connection between all living beings? The Guestbook project is committed to the pursuit of climate justice as we face the environmental emergency of our time.
The Guestbook ‘Hosting Earth’ Project comprises a series of symposia, speaker series and screenings from January to April 2022 – in collaboration with the Institute of liberal Arts at Boston College, the Irish-American Partnership, Psychology of the Other, the Fitzgibbons Lecture Series, Write the World, the Schiller Institute and Irish Studies Program at Boston College.

See more at our Hosting Earth page.

Guestbook Project presents: HOSTING EARTH

HOSTING EARTH Speaker Series

I: Psychologies of the Earth – invited speakers series moderated by Matthew Clemente
(Jan-Feb 2022)

James Morley (Ramapo College)
Donna Orange (NYU)
Edward Casey (Stoneybrook University)
Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)
Sean McGrath (St Johns University, Newfoundland)

II: Poetries of the Earth – a panel moderated by Melissa Fitzpatrick
(March 18, 2022, Devlin 101, Boston College)

Catherine Keller (Drew University)
Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
David Wood (Vanderbilt University)

III: Ecologies of Health – a webinar moderated by Peter Klapes
(Feb 8, 2022)

Ashish Jha (Dean of School of Public Health at Brown University)
Christine Grady (Chief of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health)
Lois Gibbs (Center For Health, Environment, and Justice)
Kate Burrows (Institute for Environment and Society at Brown University)

IV: Ecologies of Wisdom – Invited speakers series moderated by David Storey
(March-April 2022)

Earth Justice
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown University)
Stanley Uche Anozie (Boston College)
Matthias Fritsch (Concordia University)

Ecological Endgames
Michael Zimmerman (University of Colorado Boulder, Emeritus)
Ariel Salleh (Nelson Mandela University)
Baird Callicott (University of North Texas, Emeritus)

Nature in Asian Traditions
Marion Hourdequin (Colorado College)
Graham Parkes (University of Vienna)
Leah Kalmanson (University of North Texas)

 

HOSTING EARTH Conference
Boston College | April 23, 2022

MORNING: SCREENINGS AND PANEL DISCUSSION

Devlin 110
11 am-1pm

Screening of Guestbook films

Poetries of the Earth
The Dolphins Way
How the Trees see Us
Healing Earth

Panel discussion

LUNCH: 1-2 pm

AFTERNOON 2-6 pm:  PERFORMED LECTURE AND KEYNOTE

Heights Room
2-3.30 pm

Fish live in Water (Performed Lecture by John Manderson and Sheila Gallagher)

Panel discussion

Coffee break 3.30-4 pm

 4-4.30 pm:

Guestbook project – Year in Review

Announcement of James Mahoney-Guestbook Award for Peace Pedagogy

And of Guestbook-Write the World Prize for best student Essay on ‘Hosting Earth’

4.30-6 pm

Keynote: Conversation with Mary Robinson (Former UN Special Envoy on Climate Change)

Public Press Reception – Heights Room 6-7 pm

Contact: Kearneyr@bc.edu

“Hosting Earth” is presented by the Guestbook Project, in collaboration with the Institute of liberal Arts at Boston College, the Irish-American Partnership, Psychology of the Other, the Fitzgibbons Lecture Series, Write the World, the Schiller Institute and Irish Studies Program at Boston College.

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