Climate Dialogues 2026: Ecological Solidarities

What is solidarity? It can mean that we share an experience of oppression or a political position. But as climate crisis intensifies, we need to add more-than-human lives into this concept, such as animals, rivers or ecosystems. In a public dialogue, two philosophers, Michael Marder and Alexis Shotwell, will probe the concept of ecological solidarities beyond moral exhortation and individual responsibility. The main question of this public talk will be what it means to think and act in solidarity with beings that, when approached from the anthropocentric perspective, seem neither to speak nor to reciprocate, and how attention to unevenly distributed vulnerability reshapes ethical and political responsibility.