Societies, Families, and Planet Earth: Exploring the Connections

Sponsored by the Georgetown University Department of Sociology and the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, this two-day conference gathers together presenters from a broad spectrum of disciplines to examine how human societies organize themselves and what happens as increasing societal complexity, population density, and depletion of resources create new challenges in the relationship between the human and the Earth. Divided into four half-day panels, the conference will examine the contribution of Bowen’s concept of societal emotional process to understanding the reciprocal interrelationships among individuals, families, and societies and the deep biological link between human emotional functioning and the human’s relationship with the Earth.