Talks by Jeremy Lent

The Patterning Instinct: trailer
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Selected Talks, 2012–18

Patterns of Meaning: How Different Conceptions of the Universe Have Shaped History—and Will Shape Our Future.

Jeremy Lent speaks at Seattle University's Search for Meaning Festival, showing how structural elements of Western dualistic thought have led to a crisis of sustainability where civilization’s survival is at stake. 

February 24, 2018
45 minutes
Seattle University, Seattle, WA

What Does Celebrating Columbus Day
​Mean for the Future of Our Civilization?

 Jeremy Lent speaks at the Humanities Forum of the Commonwealth Club of California on Columbus Day about some core themes of The Patterning Instinct

October 9, 2017
1 hour (30 min video)
Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco
"What Does Celebrating Columbus Day Mean for the Future of Our Civilization?"

Audio

The Great Transformation, Or How We (Just) Avoided
​a Climate Catastrophe

A historian in 2050 looks back at the first half of the century

October 6, 2016
31 minutes
UC Santa Barbara
​The World In 2050: Creating/Imagining Just Climate Futures

Jeremy Lent & Paul Ehrlich at Kepler's

A selection of brief videos featuring Jeremy Lent and Paul Ehrlich in dialogue at Kepler's, Menlo Park

June 7, 2017
Watch the playlist of 8 brief videos

Jeremy Lent at Book Passage

A selection of brief videos from Jeremy Lent's book launch talk at Book Passage, Corte Madera

June 17, 2017
Watch the playlist of 11 brief videos

Jeremy Lent & Satish Kumar at Schumacher College

Satish Kumar and Jeremy Lent in dialogue at Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon, on the themes of The Patterning Instinct

July 22, 2017
Watch the playlist of 7 brief videos

Jeremy Lent in conversation

A selection of brief videos in which Jeremy Lent discusses aspects of The Patterning Instinct

February 24, 2017
Watch the playlist of 10 brief videos

Liology and Climate Disruption

An introduction to Liology and reflections of how this integrated worldview relates to our current crisis of climate disruption.

November 19, 2015
21 minutes
Climate Compassion salon, Berkeley CA

The Conundrum of Admiral Zheng He
and Christopher Columbus

The underlying cause for the different historical trajectories of China and Europe is to be found in the cognitive differences between the two cultural complexes, with two contrasting views of power.

February 28, 2014
19 minutes
Joint Meeting of the California and Northwest World History Association at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Humanity's Changing Metaphors of Nature

Explains the power of metaphor in human cognition, showing how humanity's metaphors of Nature—and their entailments—have changed through history.

August 2012
19 minutes
World History Association, Midwest Branch, Grand Rapids, MI>