Lenz Foundation Joanna Macy Residential Fellow Lecture with Dr. Kathleen Sullivan
An American Buddhist’s Praxis: Joanna Macy and the Nuclear Threat Re-imagined
In this interactive session, Dr. Kathleen Sullivan will share her early work with Dr. Joanna Macy from Nuclear Guardianship to bringing Work That Reconnects practices to two disparate communities, atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha) and the youth that carry their stories. Kathleen will outline early thinking on nuclear guardianship, its co-arising with Joanna’s work to link mutual causality in Buddhism and systems thinking, how this informed practices with hibakusha and NYC high school students and then shift to an interactive process to enliven our moral imagination for nuclear abolition. The session will include storytelling, photo sharing, and a classroom simulation. Come ready to participate and learn together.
Dr. Kathleen Sullivan is the Co-Chair of the Nuclear Truth Project an international initiative connecting Indigenous and First Nations Peoples, affected community members, international and civil society organizations, experts and governments working for nuclear abolition. For the last 15 years she has been the director of Hibakusha Stories (a partner of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Prize 2017) an arts-based initiative which has brought atomic bomb survivor testimony to more than 50,000 young people. She has supported the facilitation of hibakusha voices in conferences and UN forums on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. She is thrilled to be the Nuclear Guardian Fellow at Naropa University. Kathleen lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Please contact: Reconnect@naropa.edu for any questions
