E/RS Distinguished Speakers Series Lecture - "Reckoning with and Recovering Loss: The Ethics of Extinction and De-Extinction"

Many find the prospect of developing genetic technologies to resurrect extinct species exciting. Some see it as a means of restoring damaged ecosystems and protecting biodiversity; others as a way of redressing deeper harms and injustices caused by the longstanding human impact on Nature. Yet the proposed "De-extinction Project" also raises many answered ethical and religious questions: Is "de-extinction" a form of creation or restoration? What is it, exactly, that de-extinction brings back? And what value, if any, should we assign to the end products of this re/creative process? What ethical and/or religious values should guide our consideration of current proposals surrounding de-extinction?

Please join the Ethics/Religion and Society Program in collaboration with the Brueggeman Center for Dialogue as we welcome Dr. Lisa Sideris, Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who will discuss these and related questions during her upcoming lecture, "Reckoning with and Recovering Loss: The Ethics of Extinction and De-Extinction".