From Crisis to Coordination: Conversations Between Philosophy of Environmental Justice & Philosophy of Conservation Science

May 23, 2024 - May 25, 2024
Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota

Roy Wilkins Room 215
301 19th Ave S
Minneapolis 55455
United States

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Governors State University
University of Copenhagen
University of Minnesota
University of California, Davis
(unaffiliated)
Université de Fribourg
University of Pennsylvania
University of Minnesota
North Hennepin Community College
The New School
Drexel University
University of Windsor

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University of Minnesota
North Hennepin Community College
Whitman College

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Description: Kyle Whyte’s “Against Crisis Epistemology” (2021) urges those concerned by climate change and for environmental justice away from a crisis epistemology and toward an epistemology of coordination. In contrast to a crisis epistemology—which is apt to intensify colonial oppression due to the assumption that present challenges are new, unprecedented, and urgent—epistemologies of coordination seek to address challenges by developing and renewing relations of kinship, expressed as moral bonds of mutual responsibility. Inspired by this recommendation toward coordination, this conference aims to promote dialogue among philosophers of environmental justice and of conservation science. We seek to discover what we can mutually cogenerate toward the common goals of stewardship and environmental justice. Central to the conference are the questions: What can philosophers of conservation science learn from those of environmental justice, and vice versa? What would coordination look like?

Schedule — All times Central Daylight Time (GMT –5):

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

  • 3:30–4:00: Introductions
  • 4:00–5:00: Keynote: Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, “Preventing a Crisis in Planetary Metaphysics: The Need for a Decolonial Paradigm”
  • 5:00–5:30: Keynote Discussion


Friday, May 24th, 2024

  • 9:00–10:00: Keynote: Romy Opperman, “Revolutionary Survival: Intersectional Anti-Nuclear Lessons”
  • 10:00–10:30: Keynote Discussion
  • 10:30–11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00–11:30: Tristan Katz, “Taking Natural Harms Seriously in Compassionate Conservation”
  • 11:30–12:00: Aila O’Loughlin, “'Surely, you don’t mean rocks': Moral Responsibility, Indigenous Kinship Ethics, and So-Called ‘Natural Objects’.”
  • 12:00–12:30: Discussion of Morning Presentations
  • 12:30–2:00: Lunch Break
  • 2:00–2:30: Denise Hossom, “Wild Horse Problems: Insights From Integrated HPS Towards Novel Environmental Policy Approaches”
  • 2:30–3:00: Ben Almassi, “From Wildfire Crisis to Reparative Burns: Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Justice, and Fire Stewardship”
  • 3:00–3:30: Corey Dethier, “The Crisis in the Machine”
  • 3:30–3:45: Coffee Break
  • 3:45–5:00: Discussion of Afternoon Presentations


Saturday, May 25th, 2024

  • 9:00–10:00: Keynote: Karen Kovaka, “Epistemic Inequity in Evidence-Based Conservation”
  • 10:00–10:30: Keynote Discussion
  • 10:30–11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00–11:30: Joel Jensen, “The 10,000-Year Design Problem and the Burden of Memory”
  • 11:30–12:00: Federica Bocchi, “A Quest for Democratizing Measurement: Practices in Environmental Science”
  • 12:00–12:30: Discussion of Morning Presentations
  • 12:30–2:00: Lunch Break
  • 2:00–2:30: Andrew Smith, “Climate Crisis as Relational Crisis: Centering Indigenous Feminist Conceptions of Responsibility in Environmental Discourse”
  • 2:30–3:00: Olusegun Steven Samuel, “Practising Conservation: The Intersection of Decolonial and Ubuntu Lenses”
  • 3:00–3:30: Bennett McNulty, “Reflections on Crisis Science”
  • 3:30–3:45: Coffee Break
  • 3:45–5:00: Discussion of Afternoon Presentations and Conference Wrap-Up

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