What if it’s too late to avoid some kind of ecological catastrophe? Maybe it’s not, and we should be doing everything we can so that it isn’t. Still, what if it is? Shouldn’t we also be talking about that? What kind of a future do we want to create for ourselves on such a horizon? What might it mean to collapse well?

Mayra Rivera, professor of Religion and Latine Studies at Harvard University, presents, “Icons for Tempestuous Times,” the third lecture in a series of free public lectures by internationally renowned scholars and public intellectuals made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation

Thursday, October 24th at 4:00pm

Clapp Hall, Room 108

2080 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106

Free to the Public, no registration required

Mayra Rivera works at the intersections between philosophy of religion, literature, and theories of coloniality, race and gender — with particular attention to Caribbean thought. Rivera is currently working on a book that explores the relationships between coloniality and ecology through Caribbean thought

Find her most recent book here: Poetics of the Flesh (2015)

Read more about the lecture series and the Finite Futures project