Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Host, Emergence Magazine Listening HourEmmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an Emmy and Peabody award-nominated filmmaker, composer and a Naqshbandi Sufi teacher. His work has screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca, SXSW, Hotdocs, Thessaloniki, Melbourne Intl Film Festival, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, and exhibited at The Smithsonian and The Barbican. His films include Earthrise, The Atomic Tree, Sanctuaries of Silence, Counter Mapping, Elemental, Isle de Jean Charles, and Marie’s Dictionary. He is the founder, podcast host and executive editor of Emergence Magazine, a Webby winning and National Magazine Award nominated publication exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. He teaches retreats on Sufism and spiritual ecology worldwide.
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Advocating for the power of language to bring us into deeper awareness and connection with our landscapes, acclaimed British author Robert Macfarlane guides us through acts of “good naming” in an age of climate crisis. -
A decade into a journalism project that follows our early ancestors’ migration pathway out of Africa, Paul Salopek joins us to discuss the ways walking at three miles per hour has transformed his perception of time, landscapes, and our present moment. -
Indigenous food and seed sovereignty advocate Rowen White explores the potential held within a seed to restore our connection with both landscape and identity. -
In this double-bill episode, we’re sharing a special conversation with author, eco-philosopher, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, along with her reading of poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours. -
Author and artist Jenny Odell talks about her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, and how we might reconceptualize time to revolve around the rhythms and patterns within our landscapes. -
Artist, writer, and technologist James Bridle questions the parameters of the artificial intelligence we are creating and wonders what our world might look like if we recognized the relationships that exist between technology and the living world. -
Cultural ecologist and philosopher David Abram lifts the curtain of our humancentric perception to reveal the vibrancy and animism of the more-than-human world. -
Teenage Irish writer, naturalist, and activist Dara McAnulty speaks to the importance of keeping our hearts open amid our era of ecological crises, inviting us to find joy in the unknown. Plus a special poetry reading by acclaimed poet and birder J. Drew Lanham. -
Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker Andri Snær delves into our sense of time amid this moment of ecological unraveling and asks, how can we fathom a future when we can barely comprehend the present? -
Award-winning author and scholar Amitav Ghosh unpacks our past to reveal how climate change is deeply linked to colonization.
