SPEAKERS GUIDE

Dr. David Abram

Director
Alliance for Wild Ethics

1712 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Tel: (505) 984-3174
Tel 2: (505) 989-1742
riverspell@earthlink.net

David Abram is a cultural ecologist, philosopher, and spiritual teacher whose work has had a deepening influence on the environmental movement in North America and abroad. He is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (Pantheon/Vintage) for which he received the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.

An accomplished storyteller and sleight-of-hand magician who has lived with indigenous shamans in Indonesia , Nepal , and the Americas , David lectures and teaches regularly on several continents. He has authored various entries in the new Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, while his essays have been published as cover articles in Tikkun and such journals as Orion, Parabola, Environmental Ethics, Adbusters, Resurgence, and The Ecologist.

His work engages the ecological depths of the imagination, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, poetics, and wonder inform our relation with the natural world. The New England Aquarium and the Orion Society recently sponsored a large public debate, at Faneuil hall in Boston, between David and the eminent biologist E.O. Wilson, on science, technology, and the nature of ethics.

Named by the Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world, David founded the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE) in his home terrain of New Mexico ; as the father of two delightful children, he maintains a passionate interest in interspecies communication, and in the rejuvenation of oral culture.

Topics on which qualified to speak:

• Theological / Philosophical Perspectives
• Ethical / Halakhic Perspectives
• Ecology and Natural History
• Experiential Jewish Environmental Education
• Recovering the Ecological, Indigenous Depths of the Jewish Tradition
• The Contemporary Emergence of Ecological Spirituality
• The Greening of Religion and Judaism
• Ethics (and Environmental Ethics) in Judaism
• The Earthly Immanence of the Divine within Judaism

Types of Presentations available for:

• Scholar-in-residence for campus
• Jewish outdoor education programs for youth
• Jewish outdoor education programs for adults
• In-service training program for educators
• Synagogue speaker / sermon
• Campus speaker
• Conference speaker
• Workshop Leader (for daylong and 2 or 3 day workshops)