Tuesday Evenings 6:30-9:30, Common Room 350
February 5 (6:30 PM) Introduction to the Course
[Gayle Woloschak, molecular biology, Northwestern University/Zygon Center for
Religion and Science (ZCRS); David Rhoads, New Testament, Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago (LSTC)]
February 5 (8:00 PM) Environmental
Issues in the Current Climate [George Nassos, environmental management,
Illinois Institute of Technology]
February 12 (6:30 PM) Conditions and Resources [Brooke Hecht,
ecology, Center for Humans and Nature]
February 12 (8:00 PM) Sustainability [Paul Heltne, primatology,
Center for Humans and Nature]
February 19 (6:30 PM) Organisms and Habitats [Linda Vick,
biology, North Park University]
February 19 (8:00 PM) Population Processes and Extinctions
[Chris Mulvaney, Chicago Botanic Gardens]
February 26 (6:30 PM) Ecology and Evolution [Gayle Woloschak,
molecular biology, NU/ZCRS]
II. Ecological Stresses and Ethical
Responses, Part I
February 26 (8:00 PM) Vulnerable Life and Varieties of
Religious Ethics [Michael Hogue, theology, Meadville Lombard Theological
School]
March 4 (6:30 PM) Pollution:
Air and Water [Paul Heltne, primatology, Center for Humans and Nature]
March 4 (8:00 PM) Environmental
Racism [Dwight Hopkins, theology, University of Chicago]
March 11 Session
for Registered Students Only: Legislation and Policy Workshop and Discussion
March 18 (6:30 PM) Global Climate
Change [Ray Pierrehumbert, geophysical sciences, University of Chicago - To be confirmed]
March 18 (8:00 PM) Theology of
Nature [Philip Hefner, theology (emeritus), LSTC]
March 25 Reading
Week: No Lectures
III. Practical Ecology
April 1 (6:30 PM) Practical
Ecology: Congregational Life [David Rhoads, New Testament, LSTC]
April 1 (8:00 PM) Practical
Ecology: Community Witness [Clare Butterfield, Faith in Place]
IV. Biblical Reflections
April 8 (6:30 PM) Old
Testament Reflections [Ted Hiebert, Old Testament, McCormick Theological
Seminary]
April 8 (8:00 PM) New
Testament Reflections [Barbara Rossing, New Testament, LSTC]
V. Ecological Stresses and Ethical
Responses, Part II
April 15 (6:30 PM) Loss
of Species Diversity [Tatjana Paunesku, molecular biology, Northwestern
University]
April 15 (8:00 PM) Discussion
of Joseph Sittler’s Theological Contribution to Ecology [Rob Saler,
Sittler Fellow, LSTC]
April 22 Earth
Day: Interfaith evening with presentations by Jewish and Muslim scholars
April 29 (6:30 PM) Radioactive
Contamination and the Environment [Gayle Woloschak, molecular biology, NU/ZCRS]
April 29 (8:00 PM) Student
Project Presentations
May 6 Student
Project Presentations
For more information, contact the
Zygon Center for Religion and Science at 773-256-0670 or [email protected].