Our COP26 events
Catholics and COP26: Artists, Activists and Academics on Climate Justice and the Integrity of Creation
Catholics and COP26: Artists, Activists and Academics on Climate Justice and the Integrity of Creation
Theology and Religious Studies and Pax Christi Scotland
Date: Thursday 11 November 2021 - Friday 12 November 2021
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: Free live public zoom event. Recording available on Theology and Religious Studies Youtube channel.
Category: Public lectures, Academic events,
Speaker: Kochurani Abraham; Mary Jo Iozzio; Sr Veronica Nyoni
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theology/catholics-and-cop26/
Listening to and learning from marginalised voices
This event looks at the way some marginalised individuals and communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts than others. As Pope Francis observes in Laudato Si’, where there is environmental and social degradation, the vulnerable are hardest hit. Teresian Sister Veronica Nyoni, headteacher at St Columba’s Community Secondary school Lusaka, Zambia will discuss how drought, failure of hydro power and other climate effects are taking a heavy toll on the women and girls in her community. Indian theologian Kochurani Abraham, author of Persisting Patriarchy: Intersectionalities, Negotiations, Subversions (2019), also adopts a gender lens applying it not only to the climate emergency but to the concept and practices of ecological conversion. Professor Mary Jo Iozzio, author of Disability Ethics/Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective (forthcoming with Georgetown University Press) considers the challenges that climate change presents to people with disability and identifies strategies of resistance and resilience.
To register and obtain the zoom link: Eventbrite Catholics and COP26
Vodcast recording available on TRS University of Glasgow Youtube channel and Pax Christi Scotland Youtube channel
Contact: Julie Clague julie.clague@glasgow.ac.uk