Building Our Economy: Moving Past Rhetoric to a Just and Sustainable Future
A free public lecture by Riane Eisler and Nancy Folbre.
Wednesday June 12, 3:30-5pm, Marsh Life Sciences Lecture Hall, Room 235, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, FREE
Final event of the USSEE Conference
Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Studies
Riane is the co-founder and president of the Center for Partnership Studies, an organization working to develop social wealth indicators—through its Caring Economy Campaign—that show the economic value of investing in people and nature. Riane was born in Vienna, fled from the Nazis with her parents to Cuba, and later emigrated to the United States. She obtained degrees in sociology and law from the University of California, taught pioneering classes on women and the law at UCLA, and now teaches in the Transformative Leadership Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Riane is internationally known for her groundbreaking contributions as a systems scientist and attorney working for human rights. She is a founding member of the General Evolution Research Group (GERG), a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and World Business Academy, a Councilor of the World Future Council, and a commissioner of the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Sp! irituality, along with the Dalai Lama and other spiritual leaders. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including the internationally-acclaimed The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future and the award-winning Tomorrow’s Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century. She has received many honors, including honorary Ph.D. degrees and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, and is in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachesetts Amherst
Nancy is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work. In addition to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas(Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2008),Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint (Routledge, 1994) and co-editor, with Michael Bittman, of Family Time: The Social Organization of Care (Routledge, 2004). Books she has written for a wider audience include Saving State U (New Press, 2010);The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy (with James Heintz and Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, New Press, 2006 and earlier editions), The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001), and The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual (with Randy Albelda, New Press, 1996). She currently coordinates a working group on care work sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. You can read her regular contribution to the New York Times Economix Blog at https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nancy-folbre/
This is the closing plenary of the US Society for Ecological Economics Conference held at UVM from June 9-12th. Additional lectures and discussions during the conference will include international development specialist Robin Broad; environmental governance researcher Ashwini Chhatre; energy expert Cutler Cleveland; Nate Hagens, an authority on “peak oil” and resource depletion; Hal Hamilton, co-director of the Sustainable Food Lab; Cylvia Hayes, first lady of Oregon and leader of the Oregon Prosperity Initiative; UVM soil expert Fred Magdoff; Julie Nelson, a scholar of feminist economics; energy author Greg Pahl; ecological planning expert Bill Rees, who originated the “ecological footprint” concept; and Darcy Winslow a sustainability management expert from the MIT Leadership Center.
The conference will cover more than 60 topics under three major implementing themes: Re-Building the Biophysical Base of Ecological Economics; Bridging Ecological and Behavioral Economics; and, Designing Social Policy and Education for the Anthropocene. The Biophysical Economics Association will hold their fifth annual meeting alongside the USSEE in support of the theme around Re-Building the Biophysical Base of Ecological Economics.
Information, registration: uvm.edu/conferences/ussee/
For questions, please contact conference organizers at ussee13@uvm.edu.