'Between the Body and the Breathing Earth' with David Abram | KEP 2023 Talk Series
Channel: Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (Official)
Date: 2023-07-17

【Speaker Introduction】
Dr. David Abram – cultural ecologist and geophilosopher – is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Described as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by the journal Science, David's work engages the ecological depths of experience, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, language and wonder inform relationships between the human animal and the animate earth.
 
In his first book David coined the phrase "more-than-human world" in order to speak of nature as a realm that thoroughly includes humankind, yet also necessarily exceeds humankind; the phrase has now been taken up worldwide within the broad movement for ecological sanity. Currently a Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University, David usually makes his home in the foothills of the southern Rockies in the US.

【Facilitator Introduction】
Juliana has been a close affiliate with Schumacher College for the past decade, having graduated with Masters in Holistic Science and worked as a facilitator alongside experts in different areas such as Stephan Harding, David Abram, Vandana Shiva and Satish Kumar. In 2013, she founded an educational enterprise in Brazil experimenting with more participatory ways of organising. Beyond leading the organisation, she has taught and facilitated holistic thinking through numerous groups with highly diverse backgrounds. She is now a collaborator of educational initiatives in Brazil and around the world through mentoring, consulting and teaching, as well as conducting a PhD as a researcher with the Schumacher Society. 

【Talk Introduction】
This talk explores the ecology of perception, pondering the ways that our bodily senses -- our sight, our hearing, our touch -- function to bind our nervous system into the surrounding ecosystem. It also examines the ecological influence of language: the manner in which our ways of speaking can serve either to inhibit or to encourage reciprocity between our senses and the sensuous terrain. David will likely draw examples from his travels as an itinerant sleight-of-hand magician, living among and learning from indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia and the Americas.

【More about Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP)】
​​Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP) is an initiative being co-created by KFBG and its network of collaborators and volunteers. By integrating the various strands of KFBG’s nature conservation, sustainable living and holistic education programmes, it provides life-transforming learning experiences that reconnect people with themselves, each other and the rest of nature and enable them to cultivate resilience in the face of global challenges.

【KEP Webpage Links】
Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP) Main Page: 
https://www.kfbg.org/en/kadoorie-earth-programme
KEP 2023 Talk Series by International Ecological Speakers:
https://www.kfbg.org/en/events/kadoorie-earth-programme-2023-talk-series-by-international-ecological-speakers/
KEP 2023 Sub-theme - 'Touching the Soil': 
https://www.kfbg.org/en/events/touching-the-soil/

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