Roundtable | Toward a New Enlightenment for the Anthropocene
Monday, January 26,
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Speaker(s):Corine Pelluchon, Professor of Philosophy at Gustave Eiffel University, and Cyrille Barnerias, Director of European and International Relations at the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) and Duke's Felwine Sarr
Monday, January 26 at 5:00 PM | Holsti-Anderson Family Room, Rubenstein Library We are honored to welcome Corine Pelluchon, Professor of Philosophy at Gustave Eiffel University, and Cyrille Barnerias, Director of European and International Relations at the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), for a roundtable addressing today's pressing ecological challenges. Together with Professor Felwine Sarr, who will be in dialogue with them, they will explore how different concepts of the living and the idea of a "New Enlightenment" might reshape our understanding of interdependence among human, animal, and plant life in a moment of accelerating biodiversity loss.