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?
Sylvester Johnson, Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University, presents, “The Global South Is Our Future: Climate Collapse, Socio-Technical Innovation, and Global Governance after Democracy,” the final lecture in a series of free public lectures by internationally renowned scholars and public intellectuals made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation. In this talk, Dr. Johnson examines fundamental challenges to humanity posed by irreversible environmental harms amidst the global rise of authoritarianism and the accelerating pace of technological innovation. Taking his cue from the decades-long history of communities and institutions in the Global South that have tackled these issues, he proposes key lessons to be learned from the strategies and socio-technical innovations that have emerged in those contexts.
Read more about the lecture series and the Finite Futures project
Thursday, November 21st at 4:30pm
Clapp Hall, Room 108
2080 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106
Free to the Public, no registration required
