Throckmorton Lecture in History

"Reinventing Eden: Nature and Gender in Western Culture"

Carolyn Merchant, Chancellor's Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, Department of Conservation and Resource Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, February 24, 3:30 p.m.

Templeton Student Center, Council Chamber

Carolyn Merchant is a leading environmental scholar who has advanced the fields of deep ecology and ecofeminism with her work. Arguing that technological fixes are inadequate to address the eco-crises of the day, her work has posed a new vision for the social, scientific, economic and spiritual transformation of human's relationship to the environment. She has systematically documented the emergence and development of alternative approaches to the study of the environment, linking the movement for a radical ecology to other transformative social movements for human rights, feminism, and national liberation.

Merchant is the author of The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980); Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (1989); Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (1992); Earthcare: Women and the Environment (1996); and The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (2002) as well as numerous articles on the history of science, environmental history, and women and the environment. She is the editor of Major Problems in American Environmental History (1993, Key Concepts in Critical Theory: Ecology (1994), and Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History (1998).