Becoming Planetary: From the Personal to the Political

Authors

Karen Litfin, University of Washington

Date of Event

3-22-2022

Description

Writing at the dawn of the new millennium, Thomas Berry declared that the historical mission of our times, the Great Work, is to reinvent the human at the species level within the Earth community. What does that mean twenty years later as we face intensifying climate disruption, political polarization, and a pandemic - all of which press us to grow our capacities for psychological and social resilience. "Reinventing the human" encompasses not only our cognitive minds but also our emotions, our senses, and our very experience of life itself. Join Professor Karen Litfin, a pioneer in the rapidly growing field of contemplative education, for a thought-provoking and experiential exploration ranging from deep introspection to the visionary pragmatism of planetary politics.

Litfin has been on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington since 1991, and received her Ph.D. in the following year from UCLA. She specializes in global environmental politics, with core interests in green theory, the science/policy interface, and “person/planet politics.” Her books include Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in International Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1994) and The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics (MIT Press, 1998).

Sponsored By

Gonzaga University Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment; and the Faculty Senate Speakers Committee

Recommended Citation

Litfin, Karen, "Becoming Planetary: From the Personal to the Political" (2022). Climate, Water, and the Environment Events. 21.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/climateevents/21

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