© gremlin/iStock (modified)
How can we nurture visions of the good life that preserve nature and protect the interests of future generations? Can new institutions help us to re-invigorate democracy? Can creativity inspire us to conserve what we love? How can we become the ‘good ancestors’ we would wish for our kids, in the world they will inherit?
FDSD and the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity are delighted to invite you to the latest in the series of dialogues on the Nature of Prosperity, hosted by Dr Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. This event is held online and will also celebrate the previously unpublished authors who responded to CUSP’s call on Nature Writing and the Common Good.
Livestream
Webinar tickets are booked out now; but we will be using Youtube livestream as an add-on platform on the day. We will aim to feed comments and questions back to the panel moderators on the day, to make it as interactive as possible. For enquiries, please email events@cusp.ac.uk.
Agenda
- 11.15 | Introduction and Welcome—Graham Smith (FDSD Chair, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy)
- 11.20 | Becoming a good ancestor: reframing democracy for tomorrow—Rowan Williams (Poet and Philosopher, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury) in conversation with Jane Davidson (Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus UWTSD, author of ‘#futuregen’), Roman Krznaric (Philosopher, author of ‘The Good Ancestor’) and Rebecca Willis (Professor in Practice at Lancaster University, author of ‘Too Hot to Handle?’).
- 12.35 | Q&A with participants
- 13.00 | Lunch Break
- 14.00 | Nature Writing and the Common Good—Kate Oakley (CUSP, Glasgow University) and Ian Christie (CUSP, University of Surrey) introducing the aims of CUSP’s New Nature Writing call
- 14.15 | Excerpt from a finalist: Orlaith Delargy
- 14.25 | Writing about Nature: beyond caricature and nostalgia—Tim Jackson (Economist and playwright, Director of CUSP) in conversation with Louisa Adjoa Parker (Writer, Poet and Diversity Consultant), Madeleine Bunting (Writer and former Guardian Columnist, author of ‘Labours of Love, the Crisis of Care’) and Jessica Lee (Writer and environmental historian, author of ‘Two Trees Make a Forest’)
- 15.15 | Q&A with participants
- 15.35 | Excerpt from a finalist: Mahima Sukhdev
- 15.45 | Reflections on the day—Rowan Williams
- 16.00 | Close
