Dominican's Siena Center Presents Year-long Series on Sustainability

August 28, 2008 - 8:10 PDT

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River Forest, IL (AUGUST 28, 2008) - Dominican University's Siena Center will explore the topics of sustainability and stewardship of the earth from a number of perspectives during a series of lectures throughout the fall. The series, titled "Sustainability and the Christian Tradition," will consider what our stewardship of the earth and care of creation demands of thoughtful Christians, and how this relates to the larger struggle for social justice in the world. Lectures will be held in the auditorium of the Priory Campus, 7200 Division Street, River Forest.

Opening the series will be a lecture on "Caring for Creation: Human Dignity and the Common Good" by Alexia Kelley on Tuesday, September 16 at 7:30 p.m. Kelley is co-founder and executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and worked for a decade at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the Catholic Church's national anti-poverty program, and served in diverse capacities with nongovernmental organizations committed to poverty reduction, social justice and the environment. The co-author of A Nation for All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save American from the Politics of Division (2008), she will connect care for creation to the struggle to promote and protect human dignity and justice, considering how Catholic social traditions speak to ecological issues today.

On Thursday, October 2, Villanova University professor Eugene McCarraher will deliver a lecture titled "Small is Not Enough: A Cultural and Political Critique of Sustainability." The author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought (2000), McCarraher contends that sustainability as it is often understood can divert our attention from the important issues of democracy in the workplace, redistribution of wealth, and the assumption of "scarcity" that underlies capitalist economics. He suggests the Christian socialist tradition offers a way of expanding discussion of sustainable economic and ecological practices.

The third lecture in the series, "Listen to the Universe," will be held on Tuesday, October 14 and will feature poet Elizabeth Michael Boyle, OP who will explore the spiritual link between faith, theology and science. Boyle, who teaches at Caldwell College, is the author of Science as Sacred Metaphor: An Evolving Revelation (2006) and Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels: A Lyric Companion to the Lectionary (2003).

For the final lecture in the fall series, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will consider how sustainability relates to contemporary creation spiritualities, ancient native traditions and major world religions in "The Field and the Force: Religion and Ecology Meet" on Thursday, October 30. Tucker and Grim founded and direct the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University, where they also teach. They organized a series of ten conferences on world religions and ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Tucker is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme, and the newly-appointed Earth Charter International Council. Grim is the president of the American Teilhard Association.

Admission for each lecture is $10. For more information on Dominican University's Siena Center, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit www.dom.edu.

The sustainability series will continue in the spring with lectures on the theme of "Globalization, Sustainability and Us."

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.

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Kristin Peterson - Public Relations Coordinator, 708 524-6452

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