MSU Foglio Speaker Series on Spirituality Second Annual Keynote with Dr. Roger S. Gottlieb, William B. Smith Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

For millennia, people have turned to the natural world for spiritual inspiration, emotional solace, and wisdom, Nature has given us joy, awed us, and served as a sheltering presence in times of depression, grief, and fear. But now all the earth has been darkened by human power, greed, and consumption. When nature arouses grief as well as awe, a victim as well as a sheltering presence, something we are anxious about as well as something that soothes our fears, how is our experience of nature profoundly altered?

Sponsors include the Foglio Endowed Chair of Spirituality, Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (IAH), College of Arts & Letters, Department of Philosophy, Department of Religious Studies, Peace and Justice Studies, and the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel.