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Conference Announcement Theme: The Political Dimension of Nature Subtitle: An Intercultural Critique Type: Annual Conference Institution: Society for Intercultural Philosophy University of Tübingen Location: Tübingen (Germany) Date: 4.–6.6.2021 __________________________________________________ The increasingly critical impact of climate change has placed human interaction with nature on the political agenda. This reflects the realization that humans are in the process of destroying their own livelihoods. While politics, however, is primarily concerned with stopping the destruction,contemporary natural philosophy thought is being given to a fundamentally different way of dealing with nature. In addition, attention has recently been drawn, especially in the sociology of knowledge, to the profound shock that the current climate crisis means for human's self-understanding in modernity. Common to the various answers to the shaking of the human self-understanding is that they want to remeasure the relationship between humans and their environment, things, nature and technology. Such a remeasurement exceeds political action, since in the history of European-Western philosophy the sphere of the political has itself always been understood in distinction to nature. The Aristotelian understanding of man as a zoon politikon is based on the fact that humans are able to give themselves their own laws and that the sphere of action of such autonomy is set off against the heteronomous determined nature. Even in 20th century, this figure can be found, for example, in the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. The demand for a remeasurement of the relationship between man and nature is therefore not only a question of political action, but above all also a question of the political as distinct from the natural. Precisely for this reason, however, the attempt to ascribe an agency of its own to nature and things could fall short, since it merely enlarges the circle of those who participate in the sphere of political action. The question of the political and the natural goes deeper and affects the philosophical thinking in the European-Western tradition in its foundations. This is where intercultural criticism must start and confront the current struggle for a renewal of the understanding of nature with the thinking of non-European cultures and epochs. In recent years, corresponding work has been done, above all, in confrontation with Buddhism and in the recognition of Latin American and African experiences. The conference would like to tie in with these works, but also to allow further experiences of nature from other cultural traditions to have their say. In addition, the importance of an intercultural experience of nature will be explored. If the relationship between human beings and nature presents itself differently in the various approaches, then it is more than just a matter of different conceptualizations of nature. Then human reality as a whole is affected and therefore the question of the relation of the different approaches to each other arises. The answer to this question directly concerns the political dimension of nature. Important Information - Due to the current pandemic situation, the conference will take place as an online event. Participation will be possible via ZOOM. Please register for free via: i...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de You will receive the invitation link a few days prior to the conference. The link allows you to participate in the entire conference including the afternoon sections. Registered participants will have the opportunity to actively engage in the discussion of all lectures. - It is also possible to just follow the lectures via YouTube livestream without registration. This will not allow you to engage in discussion, however! Please visit our channel at the time of the conference: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbCRrdH7JsyeTU0h9VJKAQ - In case the current Covid-19 restrictions will change in the next weeks such that a Hybrid-event is possible, we will inform you via GIP newsletter and on our website: https://www.int-gip.de Program Friday, 4 June 20211 09:30 Welcome and Introduction to the Conference by Niels Weidtmann, President of GIP (University of Tübingen) 10:15 James Ogude (University of Pretoria): Ubuntu and the Principle of Co-Agency: Reflection on nature-human nexus in African ecology 11:30 Philippe Descola (Collège de France, Paris): Cosmopolitics of the Earth 12:30 Lunch Break 14:30 Parallel Sections Section 1 Nature in non-Western Traditions Cédric Molino-Machetto (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès): Ibn Khaldûn: politics and nature, a biological anthropology of power and violence Silvia Donzelli (Universities of Bielefeld and Hamburg): African environmental ethics and politics Hanna McGaughey (Universität Trier): A (Modern) Reflection of (Japanese) Nature) Section 2 Religions and Nature Munjed M. Murad (Harvard Divinity School): Developing/Discovering Theories for the Study of the Non-Human in Islam and Christianity Michael Reder (Hochschule für Philosophie München): Für eine relationale und (inter-)kulturelle Politik der Natur. Über liberale Klimapolitik und ihre Begrenzungen aus interkultureller Perspektive Fernando Wirtz (Universität Tübingen): Myth and Nature in Miki Kioyshi and Kōsaka Masaaki 18:00 Rita Segato (University of Brasilia): tba Saturday, 5 June 2021 09:00 Meera Baindur (Manipal University Jaipur): Nature as matter of beings and the politics of matter in Indian traditions and thought 10:15 Hiroshi Abe (University of Kyoto): tba 11:30 Angela Roothaan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Where Politics and Philosophy Intersect – Deconstructive, Postcolonial, Indigenous Approaches to Nature 12:30 Lunch Break 14:30 Parallel Sections Section 3 Politics of Nature Ana Vieyra (Emory University): Valuing nature without naturalizing value Juan Ignacio Chávez (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru): National Futures: Science, literature, and cartography in Argentina and Peru Alexander Stingl (IAS Warwick) / Gilles Lhuilier (ENS Rennes): Discussing Rights of Nature, Human Rights, and Earth Transnational Law on the example of Blue Economy legal cases Section 4 Decolonial Approaches to Nature Zaida Olvera (AU of Mexico State / NAU of Mexico): A Philosophical Approach to the Concept of the Nature Reserve: The Problem of Spatial Exclusion Massimiliano Lacertosa (University of Warwick): The perspective of the myriad things (wanwu 萬物) in the Zhuangzi 莊子 and the possibility of a non-anthropocentric vision of nature Pius Mosima (University of Bamenda): African ‘consensus democracy’ and nature: an intercultural approach to the politics of conservation 18:00 Seyyed Hossein Nasr (George Washington University): The Significance of Nature in Human Life – Spiritually, Intellectually and Socio-Politically 20:00 Meeting of GIP Members Sunday, 6 June 2021 10:00 Dalia Nasser (University of Sydney): Alexander von Humboldt – The Aesthetic Foundations of Ecology, and Why That Matters Today 11:00 Michael Hampe (ETH Zürich), Olivier Del Fabbro (ETH Zürich): State of Nature - War against Nature: From Hobbes to Latour 12:15 Lunch Break 14:30 Parallel Sections Section 5 Alternative Approaches to Nature Louise Müller (Leiden University): Sophie Olúwolé’s classical Yoruba philosophy and its significance for a new critical feminist non-binary philosophy of nature Matthias Kramm (Wageningen University): Nature in Māori philosophy – the case of the Whanganui River Patricia D. Reyes (University of Twente): The post-anthropocentric social and its contracts: Indigenous Place-thought meets digitally mediated climate activism Section 6 Phenomenology of Nature Irene Breuer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Natürliche und kulturell/politische Lebenswelten in Widerstreit: Die Exilerfahrung aus der Sicht des uruguayischen Schriftstellers Mario Benedetti Claus Dierksmeier (University of Tübingen): Animals as Persons? On K.C.F. Krause’s Phenomenology of Nature Mikhail Belousov (Russian Presidential Academy for National Economy and Public Administration): Husserl vs Galileo: the naturalism critique overturned 18:00 Jason Wirth (University of Seattle): Nishitani Keiji and Ecological Economy 19:00 Closing Remarks by Niels Weidtmann Contact: Dr. Niels Weidtmann Society for Intercultural Philosophy University of Tübingen Email: i...@ciis.uni-tuebingen.de Web: http://www.int-gip.de __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________