Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD

Performance of “Indigenous Wisdoms, Reclaimed Action: Love Lessons from Zazu Dreams”

Dr. Alhadeff's presentation is part of the four day Harvard Divinity School's Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Inaugural International Conference on Ecological Spiritualities

Friday, April 29, 2022

12:30-1:30 EST

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/98401443299?pwd=SDBlV2xuVS9SbnhJbGtseVQvWWVtQT09

As a resolution to current environmental crises, this interfaith, environmental-justice performance is intended to illuminate intersections between ancient Middle Eastern spiritual-pharmacopeia rituals (specifically Sephardic and Arab-Jewish) in relation to their agricultural and architectural environmental-engineering practices. While encouraging individuals and communities to collectively resist industrialized convenience-culture and its self-destructive consequences, this action-based academic performance offers behavioral and infrastructural design shifts that embody Middle Eastern Semitic indigenous wisdom/spiritual intelligence. I explore principles found in ancient Judaic and Islamic texts and laws as antidotes to our consumer-waste culture: water politics/infrastructure, architectural heating/cooling, the sacred embodied in bioregional agricultural systems, medico-magical rituals, and zero-waste/creative-waste living.

Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff has published dozens of books and essays on eco-justice, globalization, spirituality, philosophy, performance-studies, and ethnic studies. In numerous museum collections, her photographs/performances have been defended by freedom-of-speech organizations. Former professor at UC SantaCruz and Global Center for Advanced Studies, Alhadeff teaches, performs, and parents a creative-zero-waste life:

www.carajudea.com / www.zazudreams.com

A preview is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCyZmomVJM