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2025 Distinguished Sinologist Lecture Series: Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker and Professor John Allen Grim (2025/04/08)
The Academy is honoured to invite Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker and Professor John Allen Grim, to speak for 2025 Distinguished Sinologist Lecture Series with the below details:
2025/04/08 | 10:30–12:00 | Conducted in English
Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/3UXDnWS7CY
In-person Venue: Dr Hari Harilela Lecture Theatre (WLB 103), Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Online: ZOOM: https://hkbu.zoom.us/j/98804581810?pwd=9u3wDoolkbRds3ZOa5B9qFW2QeJmHN.1
Webinar ID: 988 0458 1810
Password: 638048
1. Ecological Civilization and Traditional Chinese Thought
Speaker: Professor Mary Tucker, Yale University
Abstract: This talk will examine the emergence of Ecological Civilization in China over several decades along with the recovery of Confucian values for environmental ethics.
2. Ethnic Lifeways and Cosmic Vision
Speaker: Professor John Grim, Yale University
Abstract: This talk explores the way in which ethnic peoples express their social formation, or lifeway, in relation to larger visions of the cosmos as a giving world.
Speaker Bio
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Allen Grim are the co-founders and co-directors of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and senior lecturers affiliated with the Yale Center for Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment.
They have organized a series of ten conferences and the resulting ten-volume book series Religions of the World and Ecology at Harvard University (1995-1998) of which Tucker co-edited the volumes on Buddhism and Ecology (HUP, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (HUP, 1998), and Hinduism and Ecology (HUP, 2000), while Grim edited the volume on Indigenous Traditions and Ecology (HUP, 2001). Furthermore, Tucker and Grim created six online courses on "Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community" for Yale University (available on Coursera), and, together with Willis Jenkins, co-edited the Routledge Handbook on Religion and Ecology (2016).
John Grim's research and teaching focus lies on Native American and Indigenous religions and world religions and ecology. He has undertaken field work with the Crow/Apsaalooke people of Montana and the Salish people of Washington state, and published, among others, The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1983).
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a pioneer in the field of religion and ecology and has published extensively in the area of Asian religions, inter alia, five books focusing on Chinese and Japanese Confucianism, but also on Christian and spiritual approaches to ecology and the universe.
Together, Tucker and Grim, further co-produced the Emmy Award-winning film, Journey of the Universe, for which Tucker collaborated with Brian Swimme to craft both the screenplay and the accompanying book. Additionally, they have developed three online courses on the same topic in partnership with Yale-Coursera.
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