Guestbook Project

Guestbook Project: Hosting Earth Conference

April 23, 2022 |Ìý In-person | Registration Coming Soon...

°¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College strongly encourages conference participants to receive the COVID-19 vaccination before attending events on campus.
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Guestbook Project

The Hosting Earth Conference explores the question of ecological hospitality by asking what it would mean for us to be guests of the earth as well as hosts. It challenges the anthropocentric bias of western culture which sees the sovereign human subject as the ‘master and possessor of nature’ (Descartes). Instead we are invited to experience the natural other-than-human universe as a place which holds and hosts us. Animals, trees, fish, plants, birds, mountains, rivers and seas. To consider how ‘brother sun and sister moon’ guide and nourish us with their cosmic vitality and light. To imagine what it means to move from isolated subjective being to ‘interbeing’. In short, what happens when we reverse the standard model of hospitality to acknowledge a ‘double sensation’ of hosting-hosted: a reciprocity principle which might nourish an ecological interspecies connection between all living beings, as we face the urgent climatic and environmental challenges of our time.

Information about the Hosting Earth Conference can be found on the .

Hosted by Guestbook Project
April 23, 2022
Devlin Hall, Heights Room

Sponsored by:
The Schiller Institute at °¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College
The Irish Consulate in °¬¿ÉÖ±²¥
°¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College Philosophy Department, Fitzgibbons Lectures
Center for Irish Studies at °¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College

Schedule and Registration

Saturday, April 23, 2022 | Devlin Hall and Heights Room | Registration to come

11:00am - 1:00pm

Screenings and Panel Discussion | Devlin 110

Screening of Guestbook films

Poetries of the Earth
The Dolphins Way
How the Trees see Us
Healing Earth

Panel discussion

1:00pm-2:00pm

LUNCHÌý

2:00-3:30pm

Performed Lecture | Heights Room

Fish live in Water (Performed Lecture by John Manderson and Sheila Gallagher)

Panel discussion
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3:30pm-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00-4:30pm

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Guestbook Project - Year in Review | Heights Room

Announcement of James Mahoney- Guestbook Award for Peace Pedagogy and of Guestbook- Write the World Prie for best student Essay on "Hosting Earth"

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4:30-6:00pm

Keynote | Heights Room

Conversation with Mary Robinson (UN Special Envoy on Climate Change)

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6:00-7:00pm

Public Press Reception | Heights Room

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Speakers

Speakers information coming soon...

Campus Map and Parking

Parking is available at the nearby Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue Garages.

°¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College is also accessible via public transportation (MBTA B Line - °¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College).

Directions, Maps, and Parking

Visitor Parking Information

°¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College strongly encourages conference participants to receive the COVID-19 vaccination before attending events on campus.