DeKalb--On Sunday, April 13, at
5:00 p.m., Dr. Lisa Kemmerer will present an Earth Day lecture entitled: “Eating
Earth.” The lecture will take place in Wirtz Auditorium on NIU’s main campus in
DeKalb. In her lecture, Professor Kemmerer will discuss how everyday decisions and actions
can have a dramatic positive impact on the environment and on the animals with
whom we share the planet.
Dr. Kemmerer is a philosophy professor at Montana State University
Billings. She is a philosopher-activist who has been working on behalf of the
environment, nonhuman animals, and disempowered humans for more than
thirty years. A graduate of Reed College, Harvard University, and Glasgow
University (Scotland), she is the author of half a dozen books, including Animals and World Religions and Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social
Justice. Her new book titled Eating
Earth will be out within a year (Oxford University Press). You can learn
more about her work at lisakemmerer.com .
"Professor Kemmerer is a wonderful speaker and an excellent
ethicist. Her lectures are thoughtful, provocative, and insightful and are
readily accessible in terms of their content,” said Mylan Engel Jr., Professor
of Philosophy at NIU. “Her lectures are also extremely timely in light of our
increasing awareness of anthropogenic climate change and other human impacts on
animals and the environment. The NIU community is fortunate to have such a
knowledgeable and esteemed lecturer come to NIU," Engel said.
Dr. Kemmerer’s lecture is sponsored by
NIU's Vegetarian Education Group, a non-profit student organization dedicated
to educating the NIU community and surrounding area about the multi-dimensional
benefits (human health, environmental preservation, animal welfare, and
personal enrichment) of plant-based nutrition.
Professor Kemmerer’s lecture is FREE and open to the public.
For more information, send email to:
mylan-engel@niu.edu.
