Millennium Café: “What’s Worth Disrupting?” How We Shift from Domination to Partnership

Date and Time
Location
3rd Floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex
Presenters
Cole Hons

In this brief primer on the pioneering work of world-renowned systems scientist Riane Eisler, I hope to offer an ethics-based, constructive critique of contemporary society’s oft-exalted concept of disruptive innovation. To this end, I will introduce the Café community to Eisler’s extraordinarily holistic and integrative analytical tool – the Biocultural Partnership-Domination Lens, along with its related four pillars of partnership: childhood, gender, economics, and narratives. Finally, I will offer an opportunity to participate in a book club that will dive deeper into Eisler’s work, for those who wish to learn more about practical strategies to transcend systems of rigid top-down domination and construct more egalitarian and evolved systems of partnership.
 
The Millennium Café runs 10-11am in the 3rd floor Café Commons of the MSC Bldg.  Join researchers from across campus for a stellar cup of coffee and two <10 min interdisciplinary talks.