LEWISTON — Known for his scrutiny of the cultural dimensions of climate change, a British scholar brings the ancient philosophical concept of virtue to bear on the climate crisis in a lecture at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Mike Hulme of King’s College London offers the annual Otis Lecture at Bates. A reception follows. Admission is free, but tickets are required and are available only online at bit.ly/oacbates. For more information, please contact 207- 786-8371.
Hulme’s Bates talk is titled “Climate Change: What’s Virtue Got to Do With It?” He will seek to relate contemporary anxieties about climate change with the ancient religious and philosophical idea of virtue, and with its renaissance in the field of virtue ethics.
Hulme is a professor of climate and culture in the geography department in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s College. He applies historical, cultural and scientific analyses to representations of climate change in public and political discourse.
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