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To: H-ENVIRONMENT@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: CFP: Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:16:18 +0000 CALL FOR PAPERS: Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice International Conference, 24th-28th August 2006, Organized by Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University 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, history, literature, philosophy, sociology 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 History Ecological Restoration Nature, Culture and Artifact The Land Ethic Ecology and Utopia Environmental Justice Literature and Ecology Animals and Speciesism Ecofeminism Climate Change & Disasters Environmental Citizenship Economy and Ecology Risk and Technology Environmental Movements 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) 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@msu.edu Tel: (517) 353-4878
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