Barbara Wood delivered the Third Annual Robert Swann Lecture on Saturday, April 5th at Saint James Place in Great Barrington. Barbara addresses the two sides of her father’s, E.F. Schumacher's, work—the economic and the spiritual.
James Boyce delivered the Inaugural Common Wealth Prize Lecture on Saturday, April 5th at Saint James Place in Great Barrington. The gifts of nature may be free, but securing them for the benefit of all is not. It takes hard work to safeguard lands, air, and water from being despoiled and natural resources from being monopolized by a powerful few. Fossil fuels today exemplify these twin dangers.
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe offers the parable of the Behemoth – a strange motif that warps choice and subjects it to forces beyond human agency. In a seminal year of wars and losses and apartheidic endings, when going left doesn’t feel that much different from going right, when justice feels inadequate to the rising tensions of the hour, where larger algorithms are in play, Dr. Akomolafe senses that a different, supplementary politics is needed, a different performance of power. Something stranger than hope, than clarity, than knowing what to do. And something that brings us to the feet of ‘the monstrous.’
