Environmental Justice and Politics of Individual Responsibility

The campus community is invited to a lecture on Tuesday, January 30, by Ryan Darr, a candidate for the Yale Divinity School faculty position in environmental ethics.

Dr. Darr’s talk is titled “Environmental Justice and the Politics of Individual Responsibility.” He will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Niebuhr Hall at YDS.

Ryan Darr is a postdoctoral associate in religion, ecology, and expressive culture at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate in philosophy and religion at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University. He is currently writing a book that draws from theology, philosophy, and literature to address the emerging mass extinction event as an issue of environmental justice. In addition, he is further developing work on longstanding interests in the relationship between individual responsibility, harm causation, and structural environmental injustice. His first book, The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialism (University of Chicago Press, 2023), offers a new, robustly theological story of the origins of consequentialism, one of the most influential views in modern moral theory.

Following the lecture, attendees are invited to send their feedback — faculty and staff to search chair Jennifer Herdt, and students to search committee member Benjamin Ball ‘24 M.A.R.