March 14, 2000 - The 2000 Lowell Lecture

Boston University School of Theology and The Lowell Institute cordially invite you to the 2000 Lowell Lecture, with Mary Evelyn Tucker -- 

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a professor of religion at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in world religions, Asian religions, and religions and ecology.  She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in the history of religions, specializing in Confucianism in Japan.  She has published Moral Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989).  She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), and Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998).  She and her husband, John Grim, have directed a series of ten conferences on World Religions from 1996-1998.  They are the series editore for the ten volumes, which are being published from the conferences by the Center and Harvard University Press.  They are also the editors of a book series on Ecology and Justice from Orbis Press.  In addition, they are now coordinating an ongoing Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE).  Mary Evelyn has been a committee member of the Environmental Sabbath program at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) since 1986 and is Vice President of the American Teilhard Association.

The 2000 Lowell Lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 14, at 7:00 p.m. in the 12th Floor Law Lounge of the Boston University Law School (directly behind the School of Theology, at 765 Commonwealth Avenue).  A reception will immediately follow the lecture. 

Sponsored by the Lowell Institute and Boston University School of Theology.  For more information please call the School of Theology Alumni/ae Office, 617/353-8972 or send email to MT Davila.