Speaker: Anna Gade, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Environmental Studies, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW–Madison
Dr. Anna M. Gade draws on decades of ethnographic fieldwork in the global south to render an ethics of environment and sustainability rooted in the idea of deep time. This represents a critique of common moral philosophies of the Anthropocene on the grounds of post-anthropocentric consequential relations and commitments to scales of justice.
Gade (PhD, University of Chicago) teaches environmental humanities, religious studies and Islamic studies at UW-Madison. Along with numerous articles, her single-authored books include Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations and The Qur’an: An Introduction. Her current book project is on environmental ethics.