Event | 17 June 2025 14:00-15:00
Book Launch: Laudate Deum - A Last Call for the Planet
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Type: Book launch
Format: Online
About: The book launch will consider the legacy of Pope Francis’ social teaching on ecology through a new book celebrating his apostolic message, Laudate Deum: A Last Call for the Planet (edited by Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam and Tobias Thornes; published by the Laudato Si’ Research Institute in collaboration with Partnerships for Change®).
Speakers include Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond (Laudato Si' Research Institute), Prof. Joshtrom Kureethadam SDB (Pontifical Salesian University), Prof. Veerabhadran Ramanathan (UC San Diego), and Dr Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale University). There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the event.
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Revd Prof. Joshtrom Kureethadam
Prof Kureethadam is Chair of Philosophy of Science and director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome
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Jackie Miller
Jackie Miller is the CEO and founder of Partnerships for Change, a UN-affiliated NGO that accelerates social, economic and personal transformation and community resilience. With an education in psychotherapy and crisis intervention, she is currently leading mental health care projects in Liberia and India.
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Dr Tobias Thornes
Dr Tobias Thornes is a physicist who specialises in atmospheric science and weather forecasting. He graduated in Physics & Astronomy at Durham and obtained his DPhil in Climate Physics at the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics department. He is (about to become) an ordained Anglican Priest, serving his title in a parish in Worcester Diocese, in the west of England. He has recently authored the book Growing into God.
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Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond
Prof Celia Deane-Drummond began her career as a natural scientist at the University of Cambridge specialising in plant physiology. She is now a Senior Research Fellow in Theology at Campion Hall and the Director of the LSRI, where she leads our multidisciplinary research work and develops its collaborative partnerships and projects. She has authored hundreds of publications on ecotheology, science and religion, religious ethics, and historical and systematic theology.
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Prof. Veerabadhran Ramanathan
Prof Ramanathan is a Distinguished Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Adjunct Professor of Cornell University. He is a council member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS). His groundbreaking research includes discovering the greenhouse effect of Chlorofluorocarbons; the climate effects of Atmospheric Brown Clouds and developing innovative methods to track pollution using unmanned aerial vehicles. He proposed short-lived climate pollutants mitigation, as a way to rapidly reduce global warming, which has been adopted by the United Nations and thirty countries. He is now embarked on a major effort with PAS called, From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience.
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Dr Mary Evelyn Tucker
Dr Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with John Grim. Together they organized 10 conferences on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard and were series editors for the 10 resulting volumes from Harvard. She co-edited Confucianism and Ecology, Buddhism and Ecology, and Hinduism and Ecology. She has authored, with Grim, Ecology and Religion (Island Press, 2014). They also edited Thomas Berry’s books including Selected Writings (Orbis, 2014). With Brian Swimme she wrote Journey of the Universe (Yale, 2011) and is the executive director of the Emmy award winning Journey film. She served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee and was a member of the Earth Charter International Council.