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Home / Event Calendar / Envisioning a Livable Future: An online, serial conference marking the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home

Envisioning a Livable Future

Event Details
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

6:30 pm - 7:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time

Location

Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center, John Carroll University, and via Zoom

Register for Zoom here

What’s happening? Are we too late? Can we bend the curve even now? And what has changed since 2015? Further, what needs to be done, by when, and how to do it?

 

SPEAKERS:

  • Katharine Hayhoe

    Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy & Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law, Texas Tech University

 

  • Ben Sovacool

    Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability and Professor of Earth & Environment, Boston University

 

  • Nancy Tuchman

    Founding Dean of the Loyola University Chicago School of Sustainability and Professor of Biology, Loyola University Chicago
Event Details
Monday, February 17, 2025

6:30 pm - 7:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time

Location

Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center, John Carroll University, and via Zoom

Register for Zoom here

What does Catholic social thought (CST) have to contribute to our understanding of and response to the climate crisis? Ten years after the publication of Laudato Si’, what are, or ought to be, the growing edges of the tradition?

 

SPEAKERS:

  • Emily Burke

    Social Media Manager and Young Adult Mobilization Program Assistant, Catholic Climate Covenant

 

  • Vincent Miller

    Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture, University of Dayton

 

  • "Ram" Ramanathan

    Distinguished Research Professor in Climate Sciences, University of California at San Diego

 

  • Susan Solomon

    Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies and Chemistry, MIT, and Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Event Details
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

6:30 pm - 7:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time

Location

Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center, John Carroll University, and via Zoom

Register for Zoom here

What are practical, effective forms of political action to counter the climate crisis and build both solidarity and momentum? Are all the winds countervailing, or are there promising movements and trends? 

 

SPEAKERS:

  • Daniel DiLeo

    Director, Justice & Peace Studies Program, and Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Studies, Creighton University
     

  • Jesús Sanchez

    Director, Great Lakes Environmental Justice Program, Restore America’s Estuaries
     

  • Philip Stoddard

    Professor Emeritus of Biology, Florida International University, and Mayor of South Miami, 2010-2020