Aronson Family Lecture Series
Purdue staff, students, and instructors are invited to attend this free lecture series, exploring how human aspirations can be harnessed to create a future where people and nature thrive together.
Lecture and "How We Think" Panel Details
Keynote Lecture: Can Nature Thrive in the Age of Humans?
Feb. 6, 2025 5:00 PM | Honors Hall, HCRN 1066
Human societies are an unprecedented force of planetary disruption, propagating pollutants, shifting climates, and erasing biodiversity. Can Earth’s newest force of nature be redirected to shape a better planetary future – a future where people and nature thrive together? The answer lies beyond dystopic narratives of planetary crisis in developing new ways of engaging the transformative planetary force of collective human aspirations.
A reception will immediately follow the lecture in the Honors Hall Innovation Forum. All attendees are invited to join.
RSVP to the Keynote Lecture"How We Think" Panel Discussion:
Feb. 5, 2025 5:00 PM | Honors Hall, HCRN 1066
The "How We Think" panel brings together faculty from across the university to discuss their disciplinary perspectives around a common subject, exploring what the subject makes them think about and why. This year, our panelists will be discussing time, technology and climate change. Panelists: Dan Kelly (Philosophy), Katie Jarriel (JMHC), Kristen Bellisario (JMHC), Upinder Kaur (Ag and Bio Engineering) and Moderator: Andy Paul.
A reception will immediately follow the panel in the Honors Hall Innovation Forum. All attendees are invited to join.
RSVP to the "How We Think" Panel Discussion
Keynote Speaker: Erle Ellis
Erle Ellis is Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). A Global Highly Cited Researcher, he studies the global ecology of human landscapes in the Anthropocene. He teaches environmental science and landscape ecology at UMBC and has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is an author of the US National Nature Assessment and the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment, a Fellow of the Global Land Programme, Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute, former Anthropocene Working Group member and Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Martin School. He published Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction in 2018.