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Call for Papers "Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice" International Conference Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI (USA) 24-28 August 2006 __________________________________________________ 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: Ecological Restoration Nature, Culture and Artifact Environmental Justice Animals and Speciesism Ecofeminism The Land Ethic Environmental Citizenship Economy and Ecology Risk and Technology Ecology and Utopia Environmental Movements Environmental History Climate Change & Disasters Literature and Ecology 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. Contact: Dr Piers H.G. Stephens Lyman Briggs School Michigan State University 35 E Holmes Hall East Lansing, MI 48825-1107 USA Tel: +1 (517) 353-4878 Email: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
