Barbara Wood delivered the Third Annual Robert Swann Lecture on Saturday, April 5th at Saint James Place in Great Barrington. Barbara addresses the two sides of her father’s, E.F. Schumacher's, work—the economic and the spiritual.
James Boyce delivered the Inaugural Common Wealth Prize Lecture on Saturday, April 5th at Saint James Place in Great Barrington. The gifts of nature may be free, but securing them for the benefit of all is not. It takes hard work to safeguard lands, air, and water from being despoiled and natural resources from being monopolized by a powerful few. Fossil fuels today exemplify these twin dangers.
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.
In this conversation, author Dougald Hine, theologian Catherine Keller, philosopher Alex Forrester, and posthumanist thinker Bayo Akomolafe explore new patterns of accountability, agency, collective intelligence, and responsibility. In times marked by intractable wars, insurgent quests for justice and reparations, and the troubling phenomenon of AI, all-too-theological questions emerge of how to think with (and within) the ruins of the modern imaginary.
