Ethics and Nature in a Time of Crisis
Swift Hall 3rd floor Lecture Hall
1025 E 58th St
Chicago 60637
United States
Sponsor(s):
- Bernard Weissbourd Memorial Fund
- Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization
- Committee on Social Thought
- The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
- Department of History
- Department of Classics
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Philosopohy
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We will explore questions of value, as well as practical and normative issues, concerning human communities' relationship with the environment and other animals in it.
09:00-09:20 Breakfast
09:20-09:30 Welcome Address: Steven Rings (UChicago)
09:30-10:45 Marina Baldissera Pacchetti (University of Leeds; Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Quality of Climate Change Science for Informing Adaptation: Priorities and Tensions
Respondent: Thomas Pashby (UChicago)
Moderator: Will Levine (UChicago)
10:55-12:10 Sandra Shapshay (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Aesthetic Perception and the Intrinsic Value of Nature
Respondent: J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas)
Moderator: Nicole Whalen (UChicago)
12:10-13:10 Lunch
13:10-14:25 Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism
Respondent: Paul Cheney (UChicago)
Moderator: Connor Strobel (UChicago)
14:35-15:50 Alice Crary (The New School; Oxford University) + Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)
Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory
Respondent: Claudia Hogg-Blake (UChicago)
Moderator: You Wang (UChicago)
16:00-17:15 J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas)
The Topos of Mu and the Predicative Self
Respondent: L. K. Gustin Law (UChicago)
Moderator: Samantha Fenno (UChicago)
17:15-18:15 Reception
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