2019-2020 Religion and Nature Speaker Series

Theology Department & Institute of Environmental Sustainability

The 2019-2020 'Religion and Nature' Speaker Series is a collaboration between Loyola University's Department of Theology and the Institute of Environmental Sustainability. The series features six speakers (three per semester) who will detail certain practices and ideas within their respective religious communities (Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Lakota, Hinduism) that creatively respond to today's ecological crisis and that both draw from and enrich the scientific wisdom needed to heal the Earth.

The Green Deen: Muslim Perspectives on Ecology and the Environment

Dr. Marcia Hermansen
Department of Theology

Loyola University Chicago

September 12 4:00-5:15pm IES 123/124

Buddhism, Science and Nature

Dr. Hugh Nicholson
Department of Theology

Loyola University Chicago

October 17 4:00-5:15pm IES 123/124

Christianity and Mobilizing For Ecological Security

Dr. William French
Department of Theology

Loyola University Chicago

November 21 4:00-5:15pm IES 123/124

The Tu Bishvat Seder: A Jewish Liturgy of Nature

Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld
Department of Theology

Loyola University Chicago

February 13 4:00-5:15pm IES 123/124

Mitákuye Oyás'iղ

Indigenous Spirituality and Youth Activism

Climate Change Conference Roundtable
Institute of Environmental Sustainability

Loyola University Chicago

March 13 2:45-4:15pm Damen MPR South

Hindu Goddess Traditions and Ecology:

Foundations, Dilemmas, and Contradictions

Dr. Tracy Pintchman
Department of Theology

Loyola University Chicago

April 2 4:00-5:15pm IES 123/124