CIIS Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Program

Check out this exciting upcoming event featuring Kimberly Carfore and Christiana Zenner!

Wild Women and Just Water brings together two leading voices in religion, ecology, and ethics for a wide-ranging public conversation on how women’s leadership, ecological knowledge, and moral imagination can help us face the challenges of the 21st century. The event is free, open to the public, and will be livestreamed.

Event Details: 12 February 2026; 9:30pm EST | 8:30pm CST | 7:30pm MST | 6:30pm PST

Register Here:
https://app.groupize.com/organizations/university-of-alberta-5ee56bd5-25a5-4b48-b9d5-4f1171a9c70f/events/wild-women-and-just-water-a-ronning-centre-conversation

If you will be at , don't forget to check out the Religion, Nature, and Ecology reception on Friday evening! Hope to see you there!

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

"we have to challenge the paradigm and philosophy and policies that have come out of religion [...] the concept of dominion is the concept we have to challenge if we are going to achieve rights of Mother Earth."

Click here for INFO about this breakthrough course and free INFO session on Nov. 13. 7-8 pm ET. https://dtnetwork.org/product/cosmogenetic-experience-2026/
In this course, Brian links the Powers of the Universe with Autocosmology.

🪼 Spring 2026 Course Announcement: Decolonizing Ecologies with Dr. Charlotte Saenz 🪼

Course Description: This course takes a critical view of conventional conceptions of “Nature” inherent in modernist Eurocentric thought. An interdisciplinary and decolonizing approach considers Indigenous epistemologies and practices based on relationships between people, other beings, territories, and conceptions of time. This course is grounded in readings, discussion, exercises involving interactions with one’s environment, and a semester-long investigation of place.
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Featured Texts:
Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands by Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh.
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs.
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
🪼 Will you be taking this course next semester?