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2ND CFP: Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice
Piers Howard Guy Stephens
steph243 at msu.edu
Tue Jun 6 23:29:39 EDT 2006
2ND CALL FOR PAPERS - ADDED SPEAKER & NEW CONFERENCE WEB SITE LAUNCHED
Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice
International Conference, 24th-28th August 2006,
Organized by Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University
Registration & further details now at: http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/geeej
Papers are invited for the following interdisciplinary conference, to be
held at Michigan State University, East Lansing and focused on unfolding
environmental developments. As globalization advances and the global
character of many environmental problems become more manifest, wider
perspectives are stimulated in local environmental traditions. In North
America, a burgeoning environmental justice movement makes links between
environmental damage, poverty and race that strongly recall longstanding
political concerns in Europe and the South. In Western Europe, scepticism
and mistrust of GM and other new deep technologies raises questions about
the character of “nature” long discussed in relation to the American
wilderness tradition. About the globe, environmental activists grapple with
new problems of human impacts, risk, technology, consumption and just
distribution, and articulate new visions of the future. This conference aims
to bring together a range of disparate voices across the globe and the
disciplines, broadening these new international discussions by bringing
distinctly American traditions of environmental ethics into dialogue with
international concerns in environmental politics, philosophy, literature,
sociology, history and economics. The conference is organized by the Lyman
Briggs School of Science, which has long pioneered research co-operation
right across the disciplines between arts and sciences at Michigan State
University, the USA’s first land-grant University. Workshop topics will
include:
Environmental Citizenship
Economy and Ecology
Nature, Culture and Artifact
Ecofeminism
Ecology and Utopia
Environmental Justice
Risk and Technology
Ecological Restoration
Environmental Movements
Animals and Speciesism
The Land Ethic
Environmental History
Literature and Ecology
Climate Change & Disasters
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
John Barry (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Dale Jamieson (New York University, USA)
Arthur Mol (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Ariel Salleh (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Karen Warren (Macalester College, Minnesota, USA)
Laura Westra (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
Abstracts should be received by 16th June 2006, and should be sent to:
Dr Piers H.G. Stephens,
Lyman Briggs School,
Michigan State University,
35 E Holmes Hall,
East Lansing
MI 48825-1107
USA
Email: steph243 at msu.edu
Tel: (517) 353-4878
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