What would a sustainable democracy look like? How do politics and ecology shape one another? And what does conscious mythmaking have to do with it all? Join political science professor Joel Schlosser ’03 for a discussion of these and other questions that lie at the heart of his most recent book, Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life.
This event took place on October 27, 2025.
About the Speaker
Joel Schlosser ’03 is a professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College, where he also holds the Fairbank Professorship in the Humanities and in 2018 received the Rosalyn Schwartz Award for teaching. His most recent book, co-written with Ali Aslam and David McIvor, is Earthborn Democracy (2024), which offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis. He is also the author of Herodotus in the Anthropocene (2020) and What Would Socrates Do? (2014). He has taught at Carleton (in 2008 and 2010) and Deep Springs College, where he held the Julian Steward Chair in the Social Sciences.