FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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From: Nancy Tuana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please post the following call. Many thanks,
Nancy Tuana
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Call for Papers
Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science, and Environment
February 25-27, 2001
University of Oregon
This conference is designed to bring together scientists, community
activists, and science studies scholars who are working on environmental
issues in an effort to reveal and move beyond barriers that have inhibited
interaction between scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and
humanities, and between academics and activists. From the common ground of
our concern for our global environment, we devote this conference to
establishing a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of science
studies (history, philosophy, sociology, literature, cultural studies) and
environmental studies (biological and natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities, management, policy, design, and law), as well as between
academic research and public activism.
The chief goals of the conference are to foster dialogue that engages the
practical and theoretical challenges of "taking nature seriously," that
illuminates the value of interdisciplinary and inter-community
collaboration, and that envisions new models of scholarship and policy that
can move us beyond culturally constructed barriers. We will explore
whether and how scholars studying scientific practices can contribute to
more effective scientific research and policy formation, and we will
investigate the ways practicing scientists and environmental activists can
and do work together on pressing environmental issues. Such a dialogue
promises to enable both a richer understanding of similarities and
differences in our approaches to environmental problems and a realization
of the common ground shared in our ultimate goals.
Keynote Speakers: Donna Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness and
Women's Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, author of
Primate Visions, and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium; Richard Lewontin,
Professor of Biology and Population Sciences at Harvard, author of Biology
as Ideology and The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change; Andrew Pickering,
Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology at the University of
Illinois, author of Constructing Quarks and The Mangle of Practice.
Interdisciplinary Panels: With a goal of encouraging collaboration and
interchange between scientists, activists, and science studies scholars, we
hope to form several interdisciplinary panels around themes of specific
environmental issues. For example, a panel on Genetically Modified
Organisms might include: a geneticist, to discuss the effects of gene
modification at the organismal and ecosystem levels; an agricultural
biologist, to present the pros and cons of modified seeds/crops; an
environmental health activist, to present possible hazards of ingestion of
modified food sources; and a science studies scholar, to discuss
conceptions of "natural" at play in current environmental health debates.
Prospective presenters are welcome to submit a complete panel proposal or
to advertise for panel participants on the conference Web site. (Send a
title and a brief description of your proposed panel, along with contact
information, to conference coordinator Lynne Fessenden,
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
We welcome proposals for panels, workshops, papers, on the following or
related topics:
� Salmon restoration, forest protection and management, toxic waste
management, global climate change, genetically modified organisms and other
empirical analyses of specific environmental issues and
proposed/implemented actions
� Questions of expertise, citizenship, and sustainability
� Environmental justice: the relationship between protecting the
environment and implementing equity among people
� The roles of humanistic and scientific rhetoric in environmental
arguments and activism: how do we translate theories and research results
into public environmental discourse?
� The nature and potential of Public-Interest Science (i.e. scientific
research developed and conducted with the collaboration of an active,
informed citizenry)
� Investigations of the current realism/social constructivism debates
� The value of science studies for environmental studies and vice versa
� The history and role of the idea of an independent reality, free of human
interaction
� Analyses of distinctions such as body/mind, nature/culture - whether and
how they might be productively reconceived
� Assessments of recent models and metaphors for framing the material and
social aspects of nature, such as the cyborg, hybridity, actor network
theory, the mangle of practice, and the transgenic organism, etc.
� The contributions of feminist science studies and race theories to the
bridging of science studies and environmental studies / scholarship and
activism
Submission Guidelines: Abstracts for proposed papers, research
presentations, panels, and forums are encouraged. Please send three copies
of your abstract (500 word maximum) and one copy of an abbreviated
curriculum vita for each participant. Prospective presenters should keep
in mind an interdisciplinary and inter-community audience rather than a
specialist audience.
Proposals are due no later than May 1, 2000.
Send proposals to:
Taking Nature Seriously
Environmental Studies Program, 10 Pacific Hall
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5223
Web site: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tns
Questions? Phone: 541/346-5399 Fax: 541/346-5096 E-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conference Organizers:
Nancy Tuana, Philosophy, Women's Studies & Environmental Studies
William Rossi, English & Environmental Studies
Lynne Fessenden, Marine Biology, Science Communication & Environmental Studies
This conference is sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center, the Center
for the Study of Women in Society, the University of Oregon Environmental
Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Departments of
Biology, English, and Philosophy.
Nancy Tuana
Department of Philosophy Phone: 541 346-1547
University of Oregon Fax: 541 346-5544
Eugene, OR 97403-1295
<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uophil/faculty/ntuana/ntuana.html>
Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science, Environment
<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tns/>
Re-Reading the Canon
<http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uophil/faculty/ntuana/bkserie.html>
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
<http://www.is.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/hypatia/index.htm>
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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