Date: Wednesday 06 May 2026
Time: 18.00 - 19.15
Location: Room G.16, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies Building, Trinity College Dublin.
You're cordially invited to a lecture Wednesday, 6th May, on water ethics by Prof. Christiana Zenner (Fordham University). Prof. Zenner is a Visting Research Fellow in the Trinity Long Room Hub, based in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies.
Prof. Zenner will speak about major concerns in contemporary water ethics, intersections of the environmental humanities and the sciences, and concerns from contemporary fresh water use to the impact of AI.
Christiana Zenner is Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she is affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies. Her research into emerging and established fresh water ethics as well as Anthropocene conceptualizations intersects with ecological theory, religious ecologies, developments in the earth sciences, and the ecological turn in Catholic social teaching. In all of her work, she strives to grapple with the deep patterns - both conceptual and institutional - that shape perception of cultural-religious moralities and frames of ecological-ethical perception; to demonstrate rigorous and responsible multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary eco-social realities, especially those pertaining to fresh water justice and climate change; and to articulate constructive, anti-colonial, intersectional feminist ways forward. Professor Zenner is currently writing two scholarly monographs, titled "Beyond Laudato Si'" and "Anthropocenes: Sciences, Fictions, and Ethical Futures." Her prior book, Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and Global Fresh Water Crises (Orbis Books, second edition, 2018), is taught in venues ranging from the Transboundary Waters graduate program at Oregon State University to Yale University.
Further information is available by emailing Dr Jacob Erickson at ericksoj@tcd.ie