What if it’s too late to avoid ecological catastrophe? How might we begin to imagine alternative ways forward on such a horizon?
Sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation and Hildegarde and the 2025 Elbert Baker Visiting Scholar in the Humanities, renowned speaker Bayo Akomolafe will come to the Case Western Reserve University campus to share his insights in the first installment of the Finite Futures five-part lecture series.
Akomolafe will present “Death Is a Distraction: Responsibility at Posthuman Precipices” Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. in the Thwing Center ballroom.
Akomolafe rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is a father, life-partner and a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. He is the founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species, as well as host of the post-activist course/festival/event, “We Will Dance with Mountains.” He lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and sits on the board of many organizations, including Science and Non-Duality (U.S.) and Ancient Futures (Australia).
This event is free to attend and open to all, registration is not required.