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News from Bron Taylor

Lectures in the USA, Switzerland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, and England

17.05.2012

Since his arrival in early January, Carson Fellow Bron Taylor has been busy giving invited lectures in Europe on the theme of his most recent book, Dark Green Religion, and other subjects. Taylor gave the evening keynote presentation, “Spirituality after Darwin: ‘Dark Green’ Nature Religion as a New, Global Religious Movement,” at the conference “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New Religions: Globalization and Sustainability” at the University of South Florida in March 2012.

In February he gave a plenary presentation on biosphere ethics and climate change as well as another presentation on the limits of growth at the  “One Health—One Planet—One Future: International Perspectives” conference, in Davos, Switzerland. In March he lectured at University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and the Centre for Human Ecology in Glasgow. In April, he presented at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and at the Division of the History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; he also led a workshop on "Religion and Resilience" at the Stockholm Resilience Center while in Stockholm.  And, in April he served as a panelist in a discussion following the "Rio+20 Earth Debate on Food Security" sponsored by the British Council and the RCC, held in Munich.

On 22 May he will present a lecture at LMU’s Institut für Ethnologie titled “Spirituality after Darwin: ‘Dark Green’ Nature Religion as a New, Global Religious Movement.” On 6 June he will lecture at Leeds University in the United Kingdom.

Finally, Taylor's article, “Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America: Tracing an Environmental History from Occidental Roots to Earth Day,” will appear in Wilderness Mythologies: Wilderness in the History of Religions, ed. Laura Feldt (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2013). A pre-copy edited version is online (comments welcome).