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***CHF/HYDE PARK Workshop: Reducing Global Climate
Change One Day at a Time
Sunday, Oct 28
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
Each of us needs to contribute to reducing the problem of global climate
change, but how can a mere individual effect change when the scale of the
problem is so vast? Kevin Pierce, Midwest Director of Sustainable Design for
Shaw Environmental, will lead this class that will help you take a principled
approach to evaluating the daily choices you make while encouraging you to
make commitments to sustainable practices you can implement.
FREE program. No reservations required.
Generously sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the
Fine Arts with additional funding provided by the Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation.
Additional Presenters:
Kevin Pierce
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FALL FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENT!
Wangari Maathai: A
Woman Unbowed
Sunday, Sep 23
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637
The CHF, in partnership with the University of Chicago, is proud to present
the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate in an exclusive Chicago appearance.
Charismatic, humble, and luminous of spirit, Dr. Maathai, a single mother of
three, will recount her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and
environmentalist in Kenya, a story she first told in her inspiring book
Unbowed: A Memoir.
Born in a rural Kenyan village, Dr. Maathai was determined to get an
education even though most girls were unschooled. Studying with Catholic
missionaries, she eventually earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
the U.S. She became the first woman to earn a PhD in East and Central
Africa, and the first to head a university department in Kenya. Despite her
numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi regime, in 1977 she felt called upon to
establish the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa,
helping to restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying
them to plant trees in their villages (30 million so far). Dr. Maathai’s
extraordinary courage and determination helped to transform Kenya’s
government into a democracy in which she serves as a member of
Parliament and now as Assistant Minister for the Environment. She was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her “contribution to
sustainable development, human rights, and peace.”
Don’t miss this chance to hear and meet Dr. Maathai as she offers an
inspiring message of hope and prosperity through self-sufficiency.
FREE program, reservations required. Online reservations are not
accepted for this event. Please call the CHF Ticket Office to reserve
your seat 312.494.9509.
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100 : REGION OF CONCERN
David Orr: Nature's Design
Saturday, Oct 27
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Orr, professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, will
present the keynote lecture to the Festival’s two-day examination of the
environmental issues and concerns relating to our own regional (Chicago and
southern Great Lakes) habitat. He is best known for his pioneering work on
environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological
design as described in his deeply thoughtful book, The Nature of Design.
Generously sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the
Fine Arts, with additional funding provided by the Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation.
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum.
Additional Presenters:
David Orr
Recommended Programs
REGION OF
CONCERN
Strachan
Donnelley
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104 : REGION OF CONCERN
Strachan Donnelley
Saturday, Oct 27
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Donnelley, president and founder of the Chicago-based Center for Humans
and Nature and a lifelong conservationist, will offer a personal, human-scaled
perspective on mankind’s relationship to the natural world.
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum.
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106 : REGION OF CONCERN Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Saturday, Oct 27
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Rev. Thistlethwaite, president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, will
consider ethical and moral perspectives on humankind’s responsibility toward
the natural world.
Program presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture
Series for the University of Chicago, recognizing a significant gift from CHF
board member Karla Scherer.
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum.
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108 : WONDER CABINET
Roger Payne: Are Whales Now
Singing Their Last Song?
Saturday, Oct 27
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State St.
Payne, founder and president of the cetacean research organization Ocean
Alliance, is best known for his discovery (with Scott McVay) that humpback
whales sing songs, as well as his demonstration that the sounds of fin and
blue whales can be heard across oceans. He will discuss recent findings from
his institute’s ongoing trips around the world, including the darkening
prospects facing the world’s whales owing to various environmental
depredations.
The Wonder Cabinet Series is generously sponsored by the Illinois
Humanities Council.
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****109 : REGION OF CONCERN
Sadhu Johnston
Saturday, Oct 27
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Johnston, Mayor Daley's Deputy Chief of Staff functioning as Chief
Environmental Officer, will outline the city’s vision and action plan toward a
greener future for Chicago and the region – with emphasis on the word
“action.”
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum
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200 : REGION OF CONCERN
Curt Meine
Sunday, Oct 28
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Meine, a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and a research
associate with the International Crane Foundation, will survey the natural
history of the Chicago and southern Great Lakes region, especially in the
context of mankind’s impact on that history.
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum.
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201 : REGION OF CONCERN
John Rogner
Sunday, Oct 28
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, North Gallery
Tickets: $5.00
Rogner, field office supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chicago
Ecological Services Field Office, and an active leader of the Chicago
Wilderness Consortium, will discuss the Chicago region’s remarkable
biodiversity.
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***202 : CHF/HYDE PARK
Panel: The Truth of Images
and Information
Sunday, Oct 28
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave.
One issue shaping the debate over global warming is the role played by
media and its visual presentation of information. Can we trust what the
graphs, charts, and PowerPoint slides tell us? How should we relate to the
images of faraway ice caps, coral reefs, and rain forests? A distinguished
group of University of Chicago visual artists, literary scholars, and scientists
will convene to explore how images affect our response to “The Climate of
Concern.” With Ray Pierrehumbert, professor of Geophysical Sciences; Iñigo
Manglano-Ovalle, professor of Visual Arts; David Archer, professor of
Geophysical Sciences; and Robert Jacob, Mathematics and Computer Science
Division of Argonne National Laboratory. The moderator will be David
Thompson, associate dean for planning and programs, Division of the
Humanities.
Program presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture
Series for the University of Chicago, recognizing a significant gift from CHF
board member Karla Scherer.
Presented in partnership with the Division of the Humanities, University of
Chicago.
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204 : REGION OF CONCERN
Debra Shore
Sunday, Oct 28
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Shore, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of
Greater Chicago and founding editor, Chicago Wilderness, will discuss vitally
important issues relating to water – its quantity, quality, and conservation –
in the Chicago region.
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum.
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207 : REGION OF CONCERN
Abby Mandel
Sunday, Oct 28
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
The Notebaert Nature Museum, South Gallery
2430 N. Cannon Dr.
Mandel, founder and board president of Chicago’s Green City Market, will
address farming and agricultural issues such as farmland protection and local
farm sustainability with a special focus on regionally grown food and food
sources.
Presented in partnership with The Notebaert Nature Museum.
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***208 : CHF/HYDE PARK Panel: Interconnectedness
Sunday, Oct 28
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
The long-term health of the environment depends on an infinitely
complicated, finely balanced structure of relationships. Scientists have
gathered evidence that human activities are radically altering this system of
interconnectedness, raising serious questions about our responsibility toward
the living things sharing our world. A cross-disciplinary conversation on these
topics includes Lucy Lippard, well-known art critic, curator, and theorist;
Justin Borevitz, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and
Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago; Dan
Peterman, Chicago-based conceptual artist and president, Experimental
Station; and moderator Stephanie Smith, director of Collections and
Exhibitions, curator of Contemporary Art, Smart Museum.
Program presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture
Series for the University of Chicago, recognizing a significant gift from CHF
board member Karla Scherer.
Presented in partnership with the Division of the Humanities, University of
Chicago.
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***210 : PERFORMANCE
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide
Sunday, Oct 28
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State St.
In an original performance piece, Roger Payne (the distinguished whale
expert) and his wife Lisa Harrow (the celebrated New Zealand-born, RADAtrained stage, film, and TV actress) will draw from the writing of
Shakespeare, Shelley, Melville, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder,
Mary Oliver, and others to evoke the ways in which humanity, far from
holding dominion over all life, is but part of its complex web.
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***211 : CHF/HYDE PARK Breakthroughs in Sustainable
Design
Sunday, Oct 28
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
The last decade has seen significant progress in the sort of innovative
“green” design in everyday living-and-working spaces that seeks to reduce
the impact that industrialized, technologically advanced activity is having on
the world. Chicago is at the forefront of much of this activity, and panel
participants – John Ronan, principal of the innovative Chicago-based John
Ronan Architects; Sarah Dunn, architect at the sustainable design firm
UrbanLab in Chicago; and John Preus, artist and designer at the Chicago art
collective Material Exchange – will discuss some of the cutting edge work
being done locally. These practitioners will be joined on the panel by Lee Bey,
urban architecture writer and critic, and by moderator Lydia Lazar, Assistant
Dean of International Law and Policy Development, Chicago-Kent College of
Law.
Generously sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the
Fine Arts.
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***304 : PANEL Sustainable Building in Chicago -- A
Scorecard
Tuesday, Oct 30
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Museum of Contemporary Art, Theater
220 E. Chicago Ave.
The urban built environment is the largest single source of greenhouse gas
emissions in the world. How is Chicago responding? A diverse panel of local
experts will assess how Chicago measures on the sustainable building scale.
With City of Chicago Green Projects Administrator Erik Olsen; sustainable
architecture expert Helen Kessler; ShoreBank manager of triple bottom line
innovations Joel Freehling; and Baum Realty principal and developer of the
mixed-use Green Exchange building Douglas Baum. Moderated by
internationally renowned architect Elva Rubio.
FREE program, reservations required.
Generously sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the
Fine Arts with additional funding provided by the Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation.
Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary
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***306 : Richard J. Franke Lecture: Peter Singer
Thursday, Nov 1
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
One of the Festival’s most prominent lectureships this year will feature a talk
by this brilliant and thought-provoking, if often controversial, Australian
philosopher and ethicist, currently professor of bioethics at Princeton
University. Singer, who has challenged conventional views on a host of
ethical issues ranging from animal liberation to abortion to euthanasia to
eating locally grown foods, now turns to the ethical dimensions of climate
change. The fate of billions of people, for example, depends on whether the
states that emit the most greenhouse gas emissions can agree on which
nations should do the most to reduce them. In light of differences already
expressed between the U.S. administration and the governments of China
and India, this question is likely to be at the center of international diplomacy
in coming years. Singer argues that, were climate change to be seen as an
essentially ethical crisis, it would not be all that difficult to elaborate broad
principles that could serve as a basis for reaching a fair outcome. But how do
we get there? Singer’s talk is sure to be a Festival highlight.
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403 : PANEL When Scientists Speak
Saturday, Nov 3
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Environmental scientists are quite at ease using technical language to
communicate with each other. Increasingly, however, they are encouraged to
speak (and occasionally advocate) before the general public; and not all are
comfortable in this expanded role. A panel of climate scientists and analysts
will attempt to speak, as human beings, about the implications and
limitations of their research and their duties as citizens. With Kate Moran,
director of the Marine Geomechanics Laboratory at the University of Rhode
Island; George Woodwell, founder, director emeritus, and senior scientist at
the Woods Hole Research Center; Christopher Essex, professor of
Mathematics at Western Ontario University and co-author of Taken By
Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming; and
Peter Doran, associate professor at UIC’s Department of Earth and
Environmental Science. Moderated by journalist Mark Hertsgaard, who covers
climate change for Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation magazines.
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404 : Alan AtKisson: Cassandra's Curse, Gaia's Dreams,
and the Future of Life
Saturday, Nov 3
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
St. James Episcopal Cathedral
65 East Huron Street
Climate chaos, disappearing nature, wars linked to oil and water – today’s
world is the future foreseen decades ago by Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, and
other so-called “Cassandras” (remember: the warnings by the seer of Troy
were always right even if not believed). Today we hear ever more dire
warnings from such modern Cassandras as Al Gore and James Lovelock. How
should we respond? AtKisson, author of Believing Cassandra: An Optimist
Looks at a Pessimist’s World, considers our global predicament and our
options for avoiding preventable catastrophe.
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410 : Terry Tempest Williams: The Writer As Witness
Saturday, Nov 3
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
St. James Episcopal Cathedral
65 East Huron Street
In her talk, this admired essayist, naturalist, and environmental activist will
ask: how, in a 21st century challenging us as never before to be stewards of
our planet can a writer can bear witness while still maintaining the integrity
of her craft? Williams will present a provocative review of the stands writers
have taken in the past, and how writers today might tell their stories from a
place of deep listening and compassion.
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13 : PANEL In Extremis -- Do Philosophers Have
Anything to Offer?
Saturday, Nov 3
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
What if, as George Carlin contended in a 1992 routine, this planet is simply
going to shake humans off like a bad case of fleas? A distinguished group of
philosophers will consider what might be wrong with such a resigned, even if
lucid, way of viewing the prospect of human extinction. What standing does
distant posterity have in the decisions we make in the present? To what
extent can philosophical traditions help us to parse such issues, or at least to
ask the right questions? With Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton
University; Christopher Stone, professor at USC’s Gould School of Law,
expert on environmental law and ethics, and author of the seminal 1972
article “Do Trees Have Standing?”; and Colin McGinn, professor of Philosophy
at the University of Miami and author of The Making of a Philosopher and The
Mysterious Flame. Moderated by Dale Jamieson, professor of Environmental
Studies and Philosophy at NYU.
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418 : Christopher Essex: Tales from the Greenhouse, or
How I Stopped Overheating and Learned to Love
Turbulence
Saturday, Nov 3
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Loyola University, Rubloff Auditorium, Downtown Chicago Campus
25 E. Pearson St.
From Essex, professor of Applied Mathematics and director of the Program in
Theoretical Physics at the University of Western Ontario: “Want to win a
million bucks? There's a prize offered. All you need to do is solve a puzzle
that the most brilliant minds in history couldn't crack to this day. Easy
money. If you’re bored after that child's play, your prize solution will be just
a start at solving a science problem that's really hard: climate. Yes, I know!
The climate problem is allegedly ‘solved.’ But, it's not. Come to my talk and
I'll explain.” Essex is co-author of Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science,
Policy and Politics of Global Warming, winner of the Donner Book Prize.
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***420 : PANEL Adaptation -- The Other Half of Our
Response to Global Warming
Saturday, Nov 3
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Environmentalists warn of the need to cut ongoing greenhouse gas emissions
in hopes of preventing truly catastrophic climate change in the more distant
future (e.g., 2050 and beyond). But there is an often forgotten (especially in
America) "other half" of the discussion: the need to adapt to the climate
disruptions that are already underway and irreversible. Environmental
journalist Mark Hertsgaard, author of Living Through the Storm: How Global
Warming Will Change Our World, will discuss the realities of a changing
planet with two European experts on adaptation: Chris West, Director of the
UK Climate Impacts Program, and Richard J.T. Klein, senior research fellow
at the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Generously sponsored by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund.
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421 : Alan Lightman: Science and Faith
Saturday, Nov 3
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
8th Floor
Lightman, a physicist and author of four previous, highly regarded novels,
will discuss his latest, Ghost, which takes as its theme the tense and delicate
divide between the physical and spiritual worlds – the domains of science and
the supernatural. Can the two coexist? Might they ever inform one another?
In the face of our faith-based culture, is science the only counter-position,
and must it always be right?
Generously sponsored in part by Paula R. Kahn.
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***423 : The Apology of Socrates
Saturday, Nov 3
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
This celebrated, one-man theatrical performance by esteemed actor/director,
teacher, and Emmy-winner Yannis Simonides will reenact Socrates’ famous
self-defense delivered to an Athenian court that had accused him of
corrupting the young, not believing in the gods, and creating new deities. His
legal jousting and Cassandra-like warnings antagonized his judges, who
condemned him to death. But his challenges seem as pertinent as ever.
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***501 : APOCALYPSE THEN: A HISTORY OF THE END OF
THE WORLD
Donald Hughes: Why Did Rome Decline and
Fall?
Sunday, Nov 4
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Loyola University, Rubloff Auditorium, Downtown Chicago Campus
25 E. Pearson St.
The relatively sudden decline and fall of the Roman Empire is a historical
mystery for which many causes have been suggested, from lead poisoning to
moral degeneration to the rise of Christianity. This may be why historians
over the past two centuries – ranging from Edward Gibbon in 1776 to Cullen
Murphy (Are We Rome?, published this year) – keep trying to explain it.
What can people today learn from the catastrophes that affected Rome?
Hughes, a pre-eminent environmental historian and professor of History at
the University of Denver, will consider how ecological, environmental, and
climatic factors may have been involved.
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503 : Kim Stanley Robinson: What to Do, And How
Sunday, Nov 4
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
8th Floor
Robinson, author of a celebrated trilogy of “climate change” novels (Forty
Signs of Rain, et. seq.), will discuss possible responses to climate change by
Americans, both individually and collectively. Using concepts from
sociobiology, his analysis of American culture suggests the possibility that a
vigorous response to climate change could actually make the experiential
quality of our lives better rather than worse.
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508 : WONDER CABINET
Philip Pullman: The Elementary
Particles of Narrative
Sunday, Nov 4
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
8th Floor
The story of the search for the elementary particles of matter is an
enthralling one. Pullman, author of the celebrated “His Dark Materials” trilogy
(The Golden Compass, etc.) believes that narrative, too, can be thought of in
terms of its very smallest units – units which, like the fundamental particles
of physics, can carry various kinds of charge. In this talk he will consider one
such elementary particle of narrative and show how it works in several
different contexts, from the simplest to the most far-reaching.
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510 : PANEL
Religion and the Environment
Sunday, Nov 4
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
First United Methodist Church at The Chicago Temple
77 W. Washington St.
Among political issues of interest to religious groups in this country, the
environment is beginning to emerge as key. How do our various faiths
address the many issues involved? A remarkable panel of scholars and
experts on world religions and movements will examine the various doctrinal
stances (e.g., dominion vs. stewardship of the natural world) and discuss
what religion and faith have to say about humankind's place in nature. With
Garry Wills, cultural and religious historian, adjunct professor of History at
Northwestern; Randall Balmer, professor of American Religion at Barnard
College; Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun and leader of Beyt Tikkun
synagogue in Berkeley, CA; Mary Evelyn Tucker, professor of Religion at
Bucknell University specializing in Eastern religions, and coordinator of the
Forum on Religion and Ecology; and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, chairman and
scholar-in-residence at the Chicago-based Nawawi Foundation, which seeks
to disseminate knowledge of Islam in the U.S. while engaging peoples of all
faiths. The moderator will be environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben.
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517 : Michael Lerner: The Globalization of Selfishness vs.
the Globalization of Generosity
Sunday, Nov 4
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
The rabbi and distinguished editor of Tikkun magazine, a bi-monthly Jewish
critique of politics, culture, and society, will offer his views on how best to
build appropriate American values and policies that reflect the growing
understanding that our own well-being depends on that of everyone on the
planet. Lerner invites atheists and spiritual/religious people alike to develop a
common agenda.
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***607 : DOUBLE PROGRAM! Elizabeth Kolbert: Global
Warning
Susannah Sayler, Ed Morris: The Canary Project
Thursday, Nov 8
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Elizabeth Kolbert: Global Warning
One of the most admired recent investigations of the planet’s environmental
situation, the book Field Notes From a Catastrophe, grew out of Kolbert’s
reportages for The New Yorker. With this presentation, she will elaborate on
and update her singularly lucid take on a gathering crisis that has the
potential to impact every aspect of our lives, from the energy we use to the
coastal cities we inhabit.
Susannah Sayler, Ed Morris: The Canary Project After reading that
series of articles by Kolbert, Morris, a partner in an international private
investigations firm joined with his wife Sayler, a photographer, to found The
Canary Project. The project’s goal is to compile persuasive visual
(photographic) evidence of global climate change and its potential for
devastation. They will present examples of these images and testimonies of
which more can be seen in their exhibition at the Museum of Science and
Industry, Sept. 29, 2007 - Feb. 24, 2008. Visit www.msichicago.org for more
information.
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709 : Sallie Baliunas: The Long View of Catastrophes
Saturday, Nov 10
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Loyola University, Rubloff Auditorium, Downtown Chicago Campus
25 E. Pearson St.
Countless generations of our ancestors struggled to survive natural
catastrophes. With the tremendous strides in science and technology, how
might our successors fare? Baliunas, an astrophysicist at the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics where she studies the sun's effects on
life and ecosystems of earth and other planets, will offer a longer perspective
on the current situation.
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712 : PANEL
Energy Policy in the Developing World
Saturday, Nov 10
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State St.
One of the greatest impediments to the successful reduction of global carbon
emissions has been the difficulty of crafting effective collaboration between
developed and developing countries. Can meaningful limited targets be
expected from countries such as India and China, both striving to lift their
populations out of poverty, without major reductions in emissions by the
United States and other developed nations? Will the U.S. lead or lag? Can
technological “leapfrogging” provide an effective answer fast enough?
Panelists will include Robert Hart, a founding partner of Globeleq, which
develops energy plants in emerging markets; Neha Misra, an energy
economist with The Energy and Resources Institute, North America, an
independent institution working in the areas of energy, environment, and
sustainable development; and Joanna Lewis, a Senior International Fellow at
the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The panel will be moderated by
Michael Chu, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and senior partner of
Pegasus Capital.
http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=2009&se
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***722 : Michael Novacek:Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old
Ecosystem
Saturday, Nov 10
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Field Museum of Natural History, Simpson Theater
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr.
The natural world as humans have known it, i.e. our "modern land
ecosystem," first evolved more than 90 million years ago. According to
Novacek, senior vice president and provost of science at the American
Museum of Natural History, that tremendous history is now in danger of
coming to an end. His talk will recount how humans evolved and took
possession of the Earth, how our ancient roles as exterminators and then
cultivators changed the planet, and how we should try to engage the
evolutionary future of our own and other species in a paleontologicallyinformed way.
http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=2023&se
c=adult
727 : WONDER CABINET
May Berenbaum and Neil Shubin:
The Disappearance of Species
Saturday, Nov 10
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The Field Museum of Natural History, Simpson Theater
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr.
In paired lectures, May Berenbaum, professor of Entomology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Neil L. Shubin, provost of
academic affairs at the Field Museum and associate dean of Organismal and
Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, will consider the alarmingly
increased rate of extinctions among many global species.
http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=2030&se
c=adult
803 : Mike Klarman: The Unfinished Business of Racial
Inequality
Sunday, Nov 11
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Alliance Française de Chicago
54 W. Chicago Ave
The author of the Bancroft Prize-winning From Jim Crow to Civil Rights will
discuss his new book Unfinished Business (a volume in the “Inalienable
Rights” series from Oxford University Press), which illuminates the course of
racial equality in America while revealing that we have made less progress
than we like to think. Klarman will consider the variety of social and political
factors that have influenced the path of racial progress—wars, migrations,
urbanization, legal culture, and shifting political coalitions – culminating in a
consideration of the crucial intersection of race and environmental justice.
http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=2035&se
c=adult
806 : Dean Bell: Weathering the Storms -- The Little Ice
Age and the Transformation of European Culture
Sunday, Nov 11
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
77 E. Randolph St.
The significant temperature decreases and severe storms that assaulted
much of Europe between 1570 and 1630 are known collectively as “the Little
Ice Age.” In his talk, Dr. Bell, dean and chief academic officer at Spertus
Institute of Jewish Studies, will explore the cultural and religious impact of
this cyclical climate event and its lessons for contemporary society.
http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=2045&se
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814 : PANEL
The Faith-Based Response to Climate Change
Sunday, Nov 11
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State St.
Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, which builds mutual respect and
pluralism among young people from different religious traditions by getting
them to work together to serve others, will convene a discussion about what
people of faith ought to think, say, and do to preserve the environment we
all share.
http://www.chfestival.org/festival/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=2053&se
c=adult