The Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) is a research organization that examines the foundations of modern culture and thought.
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Two free, livestreamed conferences at Yale this October from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology:
🌿 Oct 16 · Celebrating 30 Years of Religion and Ecology
🌲 Oct 17 · Living Earth Community
Details below
Forum co-director Mary Evelyn Tucker is a contributor to The Horizon of Human Oneness, the forthcoming @Pivot_Press Vol. 2. She also joined @NWirzba for our 2024 conversation "Oneness and Ecology":
comitresearch.org/event/onen…
Oct 17 at the @yalepeabody: Scientists, writers, and Indigenous leaders explore the intelligences of nature.
fore.yale.edu/event/Living-E…
Oct 16 at @YaleDivSchool: Thirty years after a series of Harvard conferences founded the field, scholars and practitioners reflect on where ecotheology, environmental ethics, and environmental justice go next.
fore.yale.edu/event/Celebrat…
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Pivot Press is live!
We're a new scholarly imprint from the Center on Modernity in Transition. We bring scholars, practitioners, and engaged communities into collaborative inquiry, forging understanding through exchange rather than compilation.
pivotpress.org
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Vol 1: Development in Transition: Rethinking Rural Futures. Three chapters available now:
• Mapping competing paradigms for rural transformation
• Michael Corbett on rural education
• Miguel Altieri & Richa Kumar on agroecology and food sovereignty
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First release from @Pivot_Press : three open-access chapters from Development in Transition: Rethinking Rural Futures—on rural education, agroecology, and competing paradigms for rural transformation.
All publications freely available. Explore at pivotpress.org
Announcing @Pivot_Press COMIT's publishing imprint.
After years of cultivating a community of research and dialogue, we created Pivot Press to give these insights durable form.
"History is asking a hard question: how do we honor human oneness without flattening human diversity?" COMIT Co-Director Shahrzad Sabet maps the tension between universalism and identity at the One Planet Summit. @OnePlanetOps
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Senior Fellow, @KerilynSchewel's new book, "Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia" is now available for pre-order from the Oxford University Press! More details here: lnkd.in/eJSE4BsB
Our Senior Fellow, Benjamin Davis' new book is now available in paperback. Links to order: bookculture.com/book/9781399… or blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pr…
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✒️ 'A well-researched study of concepts of humanity, as advanced by decolonial thinkers.'
Read a new review by @KirkusReviews of Benjamin P. Davis' recent book, Another Humanity: edin.ac/3FEw9L5 📖
Check the review out here 👉 edin.ac/442Q8Nl
Big congrats to our research fellow, Lee Miller, for being named an @AspenInstitute Food Leader Fellow!
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Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Davis on the publication of his new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt
Q&A with Dr. Davis and pre-order here: euppublishingblog.com/2025/0…
@EdinburghUP
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This week at the IPK: @niobe_way discussed her new book Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture with @CarolGilligan1 and Shahrzad Sabet. Co-sponsored by @COMIT_research and @PACHNYU.
This Wednesday, join @niobe_way, @CarolGilligan1, and Shahrzad Sabet at @nyu_ipk for a conversation on "boy" culture and our common humanity. Register for the in-person event here: ipk.nyu.edu/registration-che…
Co-sponsored by @PACHNYU
COMIT's research Fellow, Dr. Benjamin Davis will discuss his book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from DuBois to Arendt, with @AFR_PSU tomorrow morning at 9am EDT.
Link to register: lnkd.in/gxrVYmDq
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What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics?
🎧 EUP author Benjamin P. Davis considers this question and more as he posits an ethics for the present on @NewBooksNetwork
Listen now 👉 edin.ac/41ZwIIe
Dive into a fascinating discussion on rural wisdom & new agrarian philosophy with Brooks Lamb & Grace Olmstead, exploring how rural communities can guide us toward a more sustainable future.
Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/mAFs1rh1BQE
Co-hosted by @COMIT_research @DukeDCID @DukeWFPC