Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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PROGRAM DES Wednesday, December 9, 2009
9:30-11:00 am INTRARELIGIOUS SESSION
INTRARELIGIOUS 9:30-11:00am
Most Rev Christopher Prowse, recently appointed as Bishop of Sale in Victoria, was formerly the auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (Western Region of Melbourne; Episcopal Vicar for Justice and Social Services), a member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and an alumnus of the Gregorian University and the Lateran University in Rome. Most Rev Michael E Putney is the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Townsville in North Queensland. A student of the Gregorian University in Rome and the Catholic University of louvain, Bishop Putney has taught theology in Pius XII Seminary, Australian Catholic University, University of Queensland, and Gregorian University. Bishop Putney has repre sented the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity at numerous international consultations, dialogues and events. He has been the Chair of Australian Catholic Bishops' Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Relations since 2006.
Plant Perspectives John Grim Matthew Hall Deborah Bird Rose Room 103 Panel Discussion In a time of environmental crisis, who are the Earth others that we need to listen to, who do we need to heal? Engaging with the Parliament theme of Hearing Each Other: Healing the Earth from an Earth-centered perspective, it will explore the possibilities of hearing and opening up dialogue with the most prominent group of living beings on Earth: plants. As plants underpin all the ecosystems on Earth, one of the principal aims of this panel is to highlight the importance of plants in questions of Earth ethics and environmental justice. John Grim is currently a Senior Lecturer and Scholar at Yale University He is Coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology with Mary Evelyn Tucker, and series editor of World Religions and Ecology, from Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions. He has taught at Bucknell University and Sarah Lawrence College and is widely published on the subjects of religion and ecology Matthew Hall is a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh's Centre for Middle Eastern plants. Matt's research includes ecological Surveying and developing botanical field guides, as well as philosophical work on conservation theory, interspecies ethics and at - titudes to plants in religious traditions. He is a founding member of the ecological humanities research group Deborah Bird Rose is Professor of Social Inclusion at Macquarie University. Her work focuses on entwined social and ecological justice in this time of anthropogenic climate change, and is based on her long-term research with Aboriginal people in Australia. Her books include: 'Dingo Makes Us Human Cambridge UP, 1992. 2000) and Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation (UNSW Press, 2004). Recent work concerns extinctions and the moral imagination: 'Wild Dog Dreaming Love and Extinction
Poverty Symposium Closing Session Katherine Marshall Room 105 This final session will take stock of what has been learned over the course of the poverty symposium and pose the question, 'Where do we go from here?' Katherine Marshall will lead an open discussion with participants in the poverty symposium about the possibilities and challenges around translating the messages of the symposium into concrete action. Katherine Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Visiting Professor in the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She leads the Berkley Center's work on faith-inspired institutions working in development, involving a series of regional background papers and consultations with academics and practitioners, and a series of reviews of development topics
Interreligious Dialogue and the Catholic Church in Australia and Melbourne Bishop Christopher Prowse Bishop Michael Putney Room 104 Lecture Bishop Michael Putney, the Chair of the Bishops Committee for Ecumenism and Inter-religious Relations, will speak on the Catholic Church in Australia and interreligious dialogue. Bishop Christopher Prowse will present the Catholic Church of Melbourne as an example of interreligious dialogue and speak about the Archdiocese's official guidelines, 'Promoting Interfaith Relations'. Together, both speakers will address the broad range of interfaith activities that the Catholic Church in Melbourne and Australia has either initiated or in which it has been directly involved.
The Black GST (Genocide, Sovereignty, Treaty) Robert Thorpe Dennis Walker Room 106 In this session, activist Robert Thorpe will present an honest, thought-provoking presentation on the truth of how Australia was established. According to Thorpe, the Government would have you think that they are trying to do the right thing by Aboriginal people. A conversation with Aboriginal people almost anywhere in Australia will reveal that the Government's] divide and conquer policy-and its outcome of despair-are familiar to people almost everywhere in Australia.' This will be followed by a presentation about treaties with Aboriginal people in Australia by Aboriginal activist Dennis Walker Robert Thorpe is an Aboriginal activist and founder of The Black GST (Genocide, Sovereignty. Treaty). Dennis Walker is also known as Bejam Kunmunara Jarlow Nunukel Kabool. His political life began with the formation, in 1969, of the Brisbane Tribal Council. When the federal movement in Aboriginal af fairs split at the 1970 Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders meeting, Dennis was a central figure in the development of the National Tribal Council, which came into existence that year.
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