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SUMMARY:Coexistentialism: Living after the End of the World
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place on Zoom – please register here for a link. \nExistentialism is a renewable resource. What began as a literary and philosophical movement in the 19th century has undergone a profound transformation in recent years\, as the conditions of habitats and inhabitants of Earth have been altered by the rapid growth of industrial societies. Sam Mickey articulates ways in which the ideas\, attitudes\, styles\, and practices associated with existentialism are being renewed in response to the historically unprecedented ecological challenges facing humans and all life on Earth. An ecological existentialism or coexistentialism has emerged in the work of scholars who engage with what remains after the ends of the world\, a sense of ”after” associated with what can be called “post” discourses\, like postmodernism\, postsecularism\, postcolonialism\, and posthumanism. Ecological existentialism seeks ways of existing after the end of the world. In our current moment of crisis\, we are called to renew our engagement in questions of freedom\, agency\, anxiety\, meaning\, humanity\, life\, and the very nature of existence. \nSam Mickey\, PhD\, is a teacher\, author\, and editor working at the intersection of philosophical\, religious\, and scientific perspectives on human-Earth relations. He is an adjunct professor in the Theology and Religious Studies department and the Environmental Studies program at the University of San Francisco\, in San Francisco\, California. He is also a research associate for the Yale Forumon Religion and Ecology\, and an author of several books\, including On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology (2014)\, Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency (Lexington Books\, 2016)\, and New Materialism and Theology (Brill\, 2022).
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/living-after-the-end-of-the-world/
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SUMMARY:EASE research meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly research meeting (plus snacks and social time)\, with presentation by Marybel Menzies\, plus an open discussion of the Lab’s future\, and an info session about this summer’s Plum Village science retreat. \nLocation: Wilson Hall\, Room 2053 and Online ( https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86203812030 Meeting ID: 862 0381 2030\, Passcode: 423431) \nMarybel Menzies is a graduate student pursuing her PhD in the Department of Philosophy. Her primary research interests include work at the intersection of philosophy of mind and value theory. Specifically\, she is interested in the value of consciousness and its application to biomedical conditions such as vegetative states and locked-in syndrome. Outside of academia\, she enjoys swimming\, dancing\, perusing natural landscapes\, listening to music\, photography\, and travel. \nMarybel Menzies’ presentation abstract: \n“In this talk\, I argue for the ethical significance of the minimally conscious state (MCS). To do this\, I respond to a position I name the “fate worse than death view”. I then analyze current neuroscientific evidence for mental state activity in patients diagnosed MCS\, as well as perform a value theoretical analysis of these mental states to determine whether they are prudentially valuable. I show that research suggests MCS patients retain significant neural activity in regions associated with emotional processing. This preserved neural activity correlated with specific mental states that have prudential value—particularly\, I argue that emotional states are prudentially valuable. To establish my position\, I address two objections\, including the inverse inference and adaptive preference objection. The conclusion has implications for clinical ethics and treatment decisions because it suggests that prudentially valuable mental states give rise to interests\, which ought to be factored into decision-making by clinicians. Thus\, while the ethical challenges surrounding MCS remain complex\, I suggest the presence of prudentially valuable mental states in these patients must be appreciated.”
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/march-research-meeting/
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SUMMARY:"Flourishing Kin" Indigenous Lifeways to Collective Flourishing
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event here \nOur world faces crises that require a focus on community and planetary health and well-being\, but the Western mindfulness movement is primarily focused on individual self-improvement. How can Western and Indigenous sciences work together to recalibrate current practices in service of global well-being? Yuria Celidwen shares insights from her recent book Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being\, bridging Indigenous ontologies and methodologies\, academic research\, and poetic expression to cultivate sustainable collective flourishing through Indigenous contemplative spiritualities and sciences. Celidwen defines relationality and flourishing as a spiritual-aesthetic arrest only possible in community through cultivating relationships toward all kin\, from human to more-than-human\, and the living Earth. Through poetic expression and authentic truth-telling\, Celidwen invites a path that meets the world’s complexity with reverence and joyous participation in the flourishing of all living beings. \nA lecture by Dr Yuria Celidwen\, with support from the New College Initiatives Fund\, the Buddhism\, Psychology and Mental Health Program\, the Khyentse Foundation\, Trinity College’s Integrated Sustainability Initiative\, the School of the Environment\, and the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies \nBiographical introduction from Yuria Celidwen\, Ph.D.: \nI am a native of the Indigenous Nahua and Maya lineages from the cloud forests of Chiapas\, Mexico. I am of Earth; my heart is on fire. My family is one of mystics\, healers\, poets\, and explorers of the soil and the soul of life’s strength\, tenderness\, and fragility. I grew up with one wing in the wilderness and another in the magical realism of Indigenous dreamlands and stories. My Elders’ songs enthralled my childhood and enhanced my mythic imagination and emotional intuition. They’ve become the fertile soils and waters where the seeds of reverence\, play\, and wonder dig their roots. I am a Truth-bearer\, trickster dreamer\, and culture-shifter. As a scholar\, I research Indigenous forms of contemplation and the transcendent experience embodied in prosocial behavior (reverence\, ethics\, compassion\, and a sense of awe\, love\, and sacredness).‎ I call my research broader statement the “Ethics of Belonging\,” encouraging awareness\, intention\, and relational actions toward planetary flourishing and a path of meaning and participation rooted in honoring Life. I am affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where I research Earth-based contemplation and collective flourishing in Indigenous traditions of the world. Alongside this\, I am a senior fellow at the Othering and Belonging Institute; and for the American Academy of Religion\, I co-chair the Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit and am on the steering committee of the Contemplative Studies Unit.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/flourishing-kin/
LOCATION:Seely Hall\, 6 Hoskin Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1H8\, Canada
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