Events Calendar

Willamette University welcomes guest speaker Kathleen Dean Moore on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 4 and 5, for two lectures focusing on environmental philosophy. Her first lecture, entitled "To Save the World: Do We Have any Obligation to the Future?" will take place at the Paulus Lecture Hall, Willamette University College of Law and begins at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 4. The second lecture, "The Work of a Writer in a World of Wounds", will take place on Nov. 5 at 11:30 a.m. in Cone Chapel at Willamette University. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

In her Nov. 4 evening lecture Kathleen Dean Moore will discuss climate change from an atypical perspective. Using personal stories, collective testimonies from world leaders and readings from her book, "Pine Island Paradox", Moore will argue that climate change and other environmental disasters pose moral as well as scientific and economic issues and that we should “leave to the future a world as rich in possibilities as the world we inherited." A reception and book signing will follow.

During her Nov. 5 lecture Moore will center her discussion on environmental philosophy. She will offer insight to the relationship between humans and the environment, as well as discuss the importance of the arts, sciences and humanities in the process of using one’s imagination to discover our place on earth.

Kathleen Dean Moore has dedicated her life to the study of human interactions and cultural connections with nature. She has published numerous books, essays and academic articles with topics surrounding environmental ethics and the importance of a symbiotic relationship between the individual and the natural world. Moore is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and University Writer Laureate at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where she teaches classes on environmental ethics, Native American philosophy and the philosophy of nature. Through her fieldwork, activism and teachings, Moore hopes to help others appreciate nature’s significance to human beings and encourage an embodiment of ideologies that promise to preserve nature’s historical and future existence.

For more information about either of these events, please contact Andrea Foust at (503) 370-6654.