Name: Special Box Lunch Keynote: Inter-Faith Perspectives on Global Sustainability
Start: 2016-07-27T12:25:00-0600
End: 2016-07-27T13:25:00-0600

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Special Box Lunch Keynote: Inter-Faith Perspectives on Global Sustainability

In the face of unprecedented global change, Pope Francis recently challenged people of all faiths to unite together for what he called "integral ecology." Is his appeal compelling? What of a similar nature has been said in other faith traditions and what is new about this appeal? This interfaith panel discussion on global sustainability will explore a variety of faith perspectives that may contrast or correlate with the Pope's Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home. Scholars and religious leaders representing diverse faith traditions will engage with one another to discuss the roots and meanings of "integral ecology" and this contemporary call to action.

Chairs

Andrew Schwartz

Managing Director, Center for Process Studies

Andrew Schwartz is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. He received his B.A. in Religion from Northwest Nazarene University (where he studied with Thomas Jay Oord), an M.A. in Theological Studies from Nazarene Theological Seminary... Read More →

Alec Tsoucatos

Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Economics and Business, Regis University and Metro State University

Alec Tsoucatos, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Economics and Business, Regis University and Metro State University. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt on December 6 1941 (a day before Pearl Harbor) of Greek parents. Alexandria then was a cosmopolitan city that embraced English, French, Italian... Read More →

Speakers

Aun Ali

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Colorado

Aun Hasan Ali is the Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Colorado. He joined the Department of Religious Studies in 2015. He works on the Islamic tradition. Ali studied Religion and Philosophy at Rutgers University, receiving his BA in 2003. That same year... Read More →

Loriliai Biernacki

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Colorado, Religious Studies

Loriliai Biernacki (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research interests include Hinduism, the interface between religion and science, and gender. Her first... Read More →

Venugopal Damerla

Physician, United States Department of Veterans Health Affairs

Venugopal is a practicing Physician with the United States Department of Veterans Health Affairs in Denver. He was born and raised in Secunderabad, India. Over the last 25 years Venugopal has studied Vedic spirituality under the guidance of disciples of A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami... Read More →

Glenn Morris

Associate Professor and President's Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Glenn T. Morris is the Associate Professor and President's Teaching Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado. Professor Morris' areas of expertise are indigenous peoples in the international legal and political arena, public law, civil liberties... Read More →

Anne Parker

Professor Environmental Studies, Naropa University

Anne Parker is passionate about serving life and renewing our connection to and deep reverence for the Earth in her teaching and life work. She is a Professor of Environmental Studies, a full time Naropa University faculty member who has taught in both the BA in Environmental Studies... Read More →

Marc Soloway

Rabbi, Bonai Shalom

Rabbi Marc Soloway has been Bonai Shalom’s rabbi in Boulder, Colorado since his 2004 ordination from Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in California. Previously he was an actor and complementary medicine practitioner in London. He chairs Hazon’s Rabbinical Advisory Board, was... Read More →

Todd Wynward

Author of Rewilding the Way: Break Free to Follow an Untamed God, Wilderness Educator

Todd Wynward is a wilderness educator and author of Rewilding the Way: Break Free to Follow an Untamed God. Todd lives with his family in Taos, NM. When he is not re-imagining Christianity, Wynward is re-imagining public education and the American way of life, starting with his... Read More →

Wednesday July 27, 2016 12:25pm - 1:25pm MDT
University Memorial Centre (UMC), Room 235 University Memorial Centre (UMC), University of Colorado

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