Ecological Consciousness and Climate Change
Asoka Bandarage Ph.D.

Thursday, April 13, 2017
4:00-6:00 pm
Slocum Commons
130 E. Cache La Poudre Street

Asoka Bandarage, Ph.D. is a visiting Professor at Colorado College, and participant in several recent Freethinker events. She will present a lecture on the political-economic causes of the climate crisis, impacts on populations and the philosophical shift need to bring about ecological consciousness as well as a socioeconomic system based on interdependence and partnership. It will address contemporary social movements, particularly those arising out of the global south, that are leading efforts toward social justice and ecological sustainability.

Asoka Bandarage, author of the book, Sustainability and Well Being: The Middle Path to Environment, Society and the Economy.

Scholar and practitioner Asoka Bandarage has taught at Yale, Brandeis, Mount Holyoke (where she received tenure), Georgetown, American and other universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad. Her research interests include social philosophy and consciousness; environmental sustainability, human well-being and health, global political-economy, ethnicity, gender, population, social movements and South Asia. She has extensive research and publishing experience in the areas of social philosophy and consciousness, environmental sustainability, human well-being, international development, political economy, women and gender studies, multiculturalism, conflict analysis and resolution, peace and security, South Asia, Sri Lanka, population and ecology. She also has extensive teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the above areas as well as presentation of workshops, lectures and seminars in academic and broader educational settings.

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