Guestbook Project

The Hosting Earth Conference explores the question of ecological hospitality by asking what it would mean for us to be guests of the earth as well as hosts. It challenges the anthropocentric bias of western culture which sees the sovereign human subject as the ‘master and possessor of nature’ (Descartes). Instead we are invited to experience the natural other-than-human universe as a place which holds and hosts us. Animals, trees, fish, plants, birds, mountains, rivers and seas. To consider how ‘brother sun and sister moon’ guide and nourish us with their cosmic vitality and light. To imagine what it means to move from isolated subjective being to ‘interbeing’. In short, what happens when we reverse the standard model of hospitality to acknowledge a ‘double sensation’ of hosting-hosted: a reciprocity principle which might nourish an ecological interspecies connection between all living beings, as we face the urgent climatic and environmental challenges of our time.

Information about the Hosting Earth Conference can be found on the Guestbook Project website.

Hosted by Guestbook Project
April 23, 2022
Devlin Hall, Heights Room

Sponsored by:
The Schiller Institute at Boston College
The Irish Consulate in Boston
Boston College Philosophy Department, Fitzgibbons Lectures
Center for Irish Studies at Boston College