The UCSIA/IJS Chair for Jewish Christian relations, founded in 2008, aims to encourage the study of Judaism’s and Hebraism’s history from the perspective of Jewish-Christian dialogue in order to interpret its place in the contemporary European culture and to investigate its contribution to the interreligious dialogue. On the occassion of the fourteenth edition of the Chair, UCSIA and the Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) have invited professor Ariel Mayse (Stanford University) to give a keynote lecture on environmental ethics from a Jewish perspective. A response based on common Judeo-Christian and Christian sources will be brought forward by professor Annemarie C. Mayer (Trier University).
In his lecture professor Mayse will explore how to draw upon the full range of Jewish theological, legal, and philosophical literatures to construct an environmental ethic, one that counters the values of market individualism and extractivism with alternative narratives and theories of obligation toward the non-human world. Rabbinic tort law can help us conceive of thorny problems like distributive justice, collective action, cumulative pollution, and “slow violence”; Jewish creation narratives offer a vision of an integrated world, connected by sacred time and space beyond human instrumentalization; its mystical tradition enables the cultivation of resilience and hope through contemplative interiority. “The ecological crisis,” writes Mary Evelyn Tucker (director of the Forum on Religion & Ecology, Yale University), “is also a crisis of culture and of the human spirit. It is a moment of reconceptualizing the role of the human in nature.” The aim of this work is to contribute to such renewal through constructively reading the sources of Jewish law and theology.
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Programme
00:00:00 Welcome by Vivian Liska
00:04:46 Introduction by Judith Gruber
00:13:30 Keynote by Ariel Mayse
00:47:33 Intermezzo by Judith Gruber
01:02:07 Response by Annemarie Mayer
01:19:43 Q&A Introduction
01:20:32 Ariel Mayse - short reaction
01:21:40 Annemarie Mayer - short reaction
01:25:50 Ariel Mayse - contrast & conversation between two traditions
01:28:09 Q&A - action or virtue: which is more efficient?
01:30:59 Q&A - right to think differently vs communality and harmony
