In April 2015, the Center for Geographic Analysis at IQSS will hold its annual conference—and this is a special anniversary year.... Read more about CGA to Commemorate Landmark Year with 2015 Conference

In Eve Ensler’s latest play, “O.P.C.,” the protagonist struggles to define a new way of living by confronting what she sees as society’s obsession with overconsumption. The young woman, named Romi, is driven by her belief that society is losing time in which to address the mounting ecological crisis. It is this sense of urgency that people immersed in the science around climate change can’t help but live with, said Naomi Klein, an author and syndicated columnist.

In her latest book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” Klein writes that “we lack the...

In December of 2014, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard delivered the Uehiro Lectures at the University of Oxford. The subject of Korsgaard's lectures was the moral and legal standing of non-human animals and addressed the differences between human beings and other animals, the moral standing of animals, and the question of legal rights for animals.

Professor Korsgaard's three lectures were audio taped and can be heard on the Harvard University Department of Philosophy's...

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