Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World (University of Oregon, June 2008)

Thinking Through Nature:

Philosophy for an Endangered World

University of Oregon

19-22 June, 2008

Program

A PDF file of the program may be downloaded here: http://www.uoregon.edu/~toadvine/TTN/TTN%20Program.pdf


THURSDAY, JUNE 19TH
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Registration and Book Exhibit — 127 Chiles
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Session I: Workshops
111 Lillis	Ecopedagogy: Cultivating Environmental Discourse Moderator: Rose Pass, Liberal Arts & International Studies, Colorado School of Mines Toni Lefton, Liberal Arts & International Studies, Colorado School of Mines Sue Tyburski, Liberal Arts & International Studies, Colorado School of Mines Sandy Woodson, Liberal Arts & International Studies, Colorado School of Mines
112 Lillis	Near Food Moderator: Leslie Ryan, Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon Leslie Ryan, Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon Geraldine Moreno-Black, Anthropology, University of Oregon David Richey, Lane County Council of Governments, Oregon
125 Chiles	Field Studies for Change: Teaching Students For, Instead of About, the Environment Moderator: Corey Lewis, English, Humboldt State University Bill Morris, English, Humboldt State University Nick Sky, Forestry, Humboldt State University Joseph Greever, English, Humboldt State University Amanda Carter, English, Humboldt State University
128 Chiles	Sustainability on Campus Moderator: Steve Mital, Sustainability Coordinator, University of Oregon Green High Performance Schools Joe Rasmussen, California Integrated Waste Management Board, Long Beach City College, and Rio Hondo College Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy for the University of Oregon James Krumsick, Electrical Engineer, Paradigm Engineering
2:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Movie Premiere — 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall Conservation Biology & Animal Rights - An All-Inclusive Ethic Michael Tobias, President, Dancing Star Foundation Premier of Hotspots, directed by Michael Tobias
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.	Keynote Address — Gerlinger Lounge Moderator: Janet Fiskio, Environmental Studies & English, University of Oregon Reconciliation Ecology: Ethical and Philosophical Issues with the Conservation and Use of Biodiversity GARY PAUL NABHAN Distinguished Professor, Southwest Center and Department of Geography, University of Arizona
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Welcome Reception — Gerlinger Lounge

FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Registration & Book Exhibit — 127 Chiles
9:00 a.m – 10:30 a.m.	Session II
128 Chiles	Environmental Ethics and Politics Without Nature Moderator: Jacob Metcalf, Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz The Cumbers of Ontology Benjamin Hale, Philosophy/Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Voices From a Neotropical Swamp Eben Kirksey, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Postorganicism: Or the cultural logic of early environmentalism Timothy Morton, English, University of California, Davis
111 Lillis	Identity and Place-Making Moderator: Diane L. Teeman, Anthropology & Philosophy, University of Oregon The Face of Nature: John Clare's Reply to John Locke Frank M. Coleman, Independent Scholar Toponymy and Epistemology: What Traditional Ecological Knowledge can Contribute to Environmental Philosophy Jonathan Parker, Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas Transnational Landscapes and the Cuban Diaspora Jenna E. Andrews, Anthropology, University of Georgia
112 Lillis	The Politics of Trees and Walls Moderator: Theresa May, Theatre Arts, University of Oregon Tree Sitting at UC Berkeley: Living Radical Ecology Amy Champ, Performance Studies, University of California, Davis Western Transcendence: Light Over the City Walls Geoff Berry, Ecocritical Mythography, Monash University
175 Lillis	Architectural Innovations and Conflicts Moderator: Ihab Elzeyadi, Architecture, University of Oregon Living Space: Sustaining Ourselves and the Earth Using Sunlight, Air and Water Kevin Nute, Architecture, University of Oregon LIVINGSCAPES — Phytoremediation in a vertical hydroponics garden. Greening indoor spaces using Rhizofiltration to clean air contaminants Stevie Famulari, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University The Conflict of LEED: Ecology and Making in the Epoch of Technology Ron Jelaco, Architect, Seattle, WA
185 Lillis	Nature and Transcendence: the Legacy of Plato, Part I (Sponsored by the Society for Nature, Philosophy, and Religion) Moderator: Bruce Foltz, Philosophy, Eckerd College Socrates outside Athens: Phaedrus and the Possibility of Dialogue not only under but with Trees Scott Cameron, Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University Nature and the Analogical Imagination in Medieval Mysticism Robert Dobie, Philosophy, LaSalle University The Noetics of Nature Bruce Foltz, Philosophy, Eckerd College
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Session III
128 Chiles	Encountering Art Moderator: Anne Millhollen, Anthropology, University of Oregon Ecological Citizenship and Environmental Art Jason Boaz Simus, Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas Art and the Land Steven Finke, Art, Northern Kentucky University Through the Eye of the Heart—In Search of a Deep Aesthetics Beth Carruthers, Independent Scholar
111 Lillis	Breaking through Philosophical Concepts for New Possibilities in Environmental Thinking Moderator: Kenn Maly, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto Rethinking the Natural: Philosophy's Possibility Kenn Maly, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto Re-visioning the Dynamic between Culture and Nature: A Case-Study in Engaged Environmental Philosophy Sarah King, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto Constructing Goodness: Re-visioning Neo-Traditional Planning and Urban Environmental Ethics Jacqueline To, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto
112 Lillis	Ethics of Natural Systems: Microcosm and Macrocosm Moderator: Elena Cuffari, Philosophy, University of Oregon The Balanced Brain: How Nature Reflects Our Inner Terrain Phyllis Strupp, Independent Scholar Cosmoecology as a framework to a holistic view in sciences and ethics Malgorzata Kaczmarek, Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Toward an Environmental Philosophy of Resilience Madronna Holden, Philosophy and Women's Studies, Oregon State University
175 Lillis	Placeholders Moderator: William Rossi, English, University of Oregon Restoring Human-Nature: What Might People Gain from Participating in Ecological Restoration? Paul Charpentier, Environmental Science, University of Idaho Re Root Jolie B. Kaytes, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University Developing Nature along Dutch Rivers: Places or Non-places? Martin Drenthen, Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen
185 Lillis	Nature and Transcendence: the Legacy of Plato, Part II (Sponsored by the Society for Nature, Philosophy, and Religion) Moderator: Bruce Foltz, Philosophy, Eckerd College Plato, Heidegger, and the Question of Transcendence John Kress, Philosophy, University of Tennessee Immanence as the Gift of Radical Transcendence: Remarks on Plato and Schelling Joe Lawrence, Philosophy, Holy Cross Transcendence and Nature in Luther and Calvin: Developing the Possibilities Sarah Fredericks, Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of North Texas
12:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Excursions
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Keynote Address — Lillis 282 Moderator: David Wood, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Barbarism, Humanism and Democratic Ecology JOHN LLEWELYN Emeritus Reader in Philosophy, Edinburgh University

SATURDAY, JUNE 21ST
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Registration & Book Exhibit — 127 Chiles
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Session IV
128 Chiles	Ecocriticism: Mimesis, Materiality, Life (Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Moderator: Scott Knickerbocker, English & Environmental Studies, The College of Idaho Ecocriticism, Mimesis, and Aristotle Robert Wess, English, Oregon State University A Dirty Material Turn: Ecocriticism, Science Studies, and the Case of Michael Heizer’s Nine Nevada Depressions Nicole Merola, English, Rhode Island School of Design The Pine Island Paradox as Equipment for Living: Thinking through complex social-environmental decisions with the help of contemporary environmental literature Brett Werner, Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
111 Lillis	Heideggerian Contributions Moderator: Emma Jones, Philosophy, University of Oregon Environmental Problem-Solving & Heidegger's Phenomenology Sharon R. Harvey, Philosophy, Washington State University Opening the Fourfold—Architecture and Environments Randall Teal, Architecture and Interior Design, University of Idaho Architecture as Eco-poiesis Michael Austin Lucas, Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
112 Lillis	Bridging Science and Design/Planning Moderator: Shannon Tyman, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon Life and Complexity: Bridging Science and Design/Planning Bob Mugerauer, Architecture & Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington Building Dynamic Systems: A Direction for Urban Design to Promote Ecological Resilience Kuei-Hsien Liao, Built Environment Program, University of Washington Cyborg Love: Enactivist Theory and Affirmative Post-Modernism Joshua Miller, Built Environment Program, University of Washington
175 Lillis	Alternatives to Estrangement from Nature: Narrative, Identity, Built Environment Moderator: Eugenia Kroik, Art, University of Oregon Narrative and Nature: Sympathy with the Non-Human World Brian Treanor, Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University Interpreting the Self through Nature: Environmental Identity-Sympathy or Estrangement David Utsler, Independent Scholar Alienation from Nature and the Built Environment Steven Vogel, Philosophy, Denison University
185 Lillis	Anthropocentrism and Environmental Justice (Sponsored by the Society for Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Social Ecology) Moderator: Beckey Sukovaty, Philosophy, University of Oregon Restoring Human-Centeredness to Environmental Conscience: The Ecocentrist's Dilemma, The Role of Heterocentric Anthropomorphizing, and the Significance of Social Justice for Ecological Feminism Wendy Lynne Lee, Philosophy, Bloomsburg University Environmental Identity at the Divides of Centrism and Dualism: An Environmental Justice Denouncement of Anthropocentric/ Non-Anthropocentric Camps and Self/Other Struggles Robert Melchior Figueroa, Philosophy, University of North Texas Respondant: Keith Peterson, Philosophy, Colby College
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Session V
128 Chiles	Roots and Bones: Environmental Ethics and Architectural Design Processes Moderator: Kathleen Dean Moore, Philosophy, Oregon State University Panel Discussion Participants: Erin E. Moore, Architecture, University of Arizona Craig Delancey, Philosophy, State University of New York at Oswego Kathleen Dean Moore, Philosophy, Oregon State University
111 Lillis	Environmental Philosophy and Asian Traditions Moderator: Zhang Er, Professor of Medical Ethics, The Evergreen State College Earthed-experiences of Nature: Place and Nature in Indian Vedic and Puranic Thought Meera Baindur, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India Buddhism and Phenomenology: Prospects for Environmental Philosophy Aaron Weiss, Asian & Comparative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies Embodiment and Embodhiment: The Environmental Ethics of Mantra in Tantric Buddhism Elizabeth McAnally, Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program, California Institute of Integral Studies
112 Lillis	Ecocritical Innovations Moderator: Kelly Sultzbach, English, University of Oregon Nature As The Unconscious Leonard Schwartz, Literary Arts, The Evergreen State College The Green Ethics of Fantasy: An Ecocritical Approach to Fantastic Fiction Tonia L. Payne, English, Nassau Community College-SUNY Her Vision, Her Voice: Sustainability in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony Shari Childers, Arts & Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas
175 Lillis	Returning to Experience: Existentialism and Romanticism Moderator: Sarah Adams, Philosophy, University of Oregon If Sartre Met Gaia: Existentialism, Ecophenomenology, and Environmental Ethics Matthew C. Ally, Philosophy, City University of New York/BMCC Petrarch and Paul Celan on the Romantic Experience of Nature J. Claude Evans, Philosophy, Washington University
185 Lillis	Ethics and Spirituality in Ecofeminism and Ecomasculinism (Sponsored by the Society for Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Social Ecology) Moderator: Mathew Foust, Philosophy, University of Oregon Place and Relation: Towards a Maximally Concrete Ethics of Care Lucy Schultz, Philosophy, University of Oregon Towards an Ecological Masculinism Paul M. Pulé, Sustainability Researcher, Murdoch University
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	SEEJSE Keynote Address — 282 Lillis Sponsored by the Society for Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Social Ecology Moderator: Keith Peterson, Philosophy, Colby College Taking Empirical Data Seriously, Really! KAREN WARREN Professor of Philosophy, Macalester College
3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.	Session VI
128 Chiles	Ethical Inquiries: From Virtue to Regulation Moderator: Gordon Sayre, English, University of Oregon Environmental Ethics, Virtue Theory and Pessimism Sheila Mason, Philosophy, Concordia University Listening to the World: Repercussions of Aldo Leopold and Jean-Luc Nancy Sam Mickey, Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program, California Institute of Integral Studies A War of Musical Chairs: What Have We Done to Leopold’s Land Ethic? (And What Else Can We Do?) Adam Novick, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
111 Lillis	Art Ecologies Moderator: Jill Jakimetz, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon Far Away Places Carla Bengtson, Art, University of Oregon Notations from Nature Josh Jalbert, Artist On the Outskirts: The Development of a Prairie Dog Town Paula Rebsom, Art, Marylhurst University
112 Lillis	Into the Wild: Rethinking the Alterity of Animals and the Earth in Heidegger, Haraway, and Merleau-Ponty Moderator: Sarah Adams, Philosophy, University of Oregon The Logos of the Living: Towards a Fundamental Ontology of Animality Josh Michael Hayes, Philosophy, Santa Clara University Knowledge as a Relational Skill: An Alternative Epistemological Approach to Other Animals Lori Brown, Philosophy, University of Oregon Moles Agitat Mentem: Engaging the Alterity of the Wild Kenneth Liberman, Sociology, University of Oregon
175 Lillis	Ecotopia, Dystopia, and Apocalypse Moderator: Shane Billings, English, University of Oregon Utopian Hermeneutics and Environmental Philosophy Larry A. Erickson, Philosophy, University of Kentucky The Green Wall: Nature as Oppositional Symbol and Operator in Yevgeny Zamyatin's Dystopian Frame Piers H. G. Stephens, Philosophy of Science, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University The Road at The End of the World Kylie Crane, English, University of Erlangen
185 Lillis	Control of Nature, Sustainability, and Intellectual Property (Sponsored by the Society for Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Social Ecology) Moderator: Johanna Luttrell, Philosophy, University of Oregon Ways of Being With, or Reconciling Environmental Justice and Nature Protection Mark Woods, Philosophy, University of San Diego Ecotourism as a Strategy for Sustainable Development in the Third World Francisco Detrell, Environmental Activist, Ensenada, Baja California Norte The Political Economy of Plant Patents: Piracy, Cultural Usurpation or Distributive Justice? Tung-Yi Kho, Sociology, University of Oregon
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.	Keynote Address & Conference Banquet Erb Memorial Union Ballroom Moderator: Louise “Molly” Westling, English, University of Oregon TITLE: TBA DONNA HARAWAY Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Registration & Book Exhibit — 127 Chiles
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Session VII
128 Chiles	Restoration Reconsidered Moderator: Mark Woods, Philosophy, University of San Diego Restoration Ethics and Military-to-Wildlife Conversions Marion Hourdequin, Philosophy, Colorado College & David Havlick, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs The Disciplinary Boundaries of Nature in Ecological Restoration: (In)commensurability between Ecological Scientists' Nature and Social Critics' Nature? Yen-Chu Weng, Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison A Multiple Vision on Ecological Restoration F.W.J. Keulartz, Applied Philosophy, Wageningen University & Research Centre, The Netherlands
111 Lillis	Envisioning Alternatives: From Popular Culture to Neo-Primitivism Moderator: Debra Merskin, Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon Environmental Ethics and Popular Culture in the 1980s: Famine Relief and Rain Forest Conservation Cheryl Lousley, English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University Primitivism and its Modern Variations: John Zerzan, Mick Smith and Paul Shepard on the Challenge of Neo-Primitivism Richard Kover, Philosophy, Husserl - Archives, K.U. Leuven
112 Lillis	Eco-Politics Today Moderator: Eric Luttrell, English, University of Oregon Can Ecocriticism Be Eco-Politics? Shane Billings, English, University of Oregon Green Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Ecocriticism Tristan Sipley, English, University of Oregon Deleuze and Guattari's Eco-Politics Thomas Nail, Philosophy, University of Oregon
175 Lillis	Healing with Nature Moderator: TBA Nature: The Natural Choice for Therapy within Post Conflict/ Reconstruction Settings Tiffany Greene, The Gnome Project Environmental Ayurvedics: Applying the Tri-Dosic theory to Earth Issues Gantt Charping, Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program,The California Institute of Integral Studies A Process Relational Vision Illuminates an Intention Fast Experience Barbara Booth Keiller, Psychotherapist, Private Practice, San Diego
185 Lillis	Environmental Aesthetics: Fashion, Literature, Nature Moderator: Carolyn Culbertson, Philosophy, University of Oregon Haute Couture and Environmental Couture: The End of Transcendence and the Opening of Ecological Aesthetics Whitney A. Bauman, Forum On Religion and Ecology “The Still Unlovely Human Mind”: Environmental Aesthetics as Ecological Ethics in the Work of Edward Abbey and Barry Lopez Michael Emerson, Humanities/Communications, Northwestern Michigan College Evaluating Positive Aesthetics Ned Hettinger, Philosophy, College of Charleston
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Session VIII
128 Chiles	Responsibility After Humanism Moderator: Elena Cuffari, Philosophy, University of Oregon Elemental Politics? Hans Jonas and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility towards Nature Susanna Lindberg, Philosophy, University of Helsinki Beyond Narcissistic Humanism: Imagining the Other, Valuing Difference David Wood, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
111 Lillis	Ecological Design: Conceptions of the Enterprise Moderator: TBA Ecological vs ‘Environmental’—Or Are we Ready for the End of the Hubristic Tradition in Design? Cathleen Corlett, Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon The Force that Drives the Flower: Ecological Design for Outsiders Robert Alcock, Forum for a Sustainable Zorrozaurre, Bilbao, Spain That Was the Past. It's Over Now Nicolas Smith, Architect, Jackson, Wyoming
112 Lillis	Nature’s Value Revisited Moderator: Wendy Lynne Lee, Philosophy, Bloomsburg University Outline of an Ecocentric Decision Procedure Edward R. Abplanalp, Philosophy, The University of Nebraska Leaving Nature Alone: How Moral Justification can Harm Environmentalism Justin Jeffrey, Philosophy, Duke University Why Environmental Ethicists Should Give Up on the Concept of Value Simon P. James, Philosophy, Durham University, UK
175 Lillis	Ecophenomenological Investigations Moderator: TBA Eco-Phenomenology and the Aesthetics of Wonder Louise Economides, English, University of Montana The Who of Environmental Ethics: A Philosophical Anthropology Underlying the Need to Pursue an Environmental Ethics Charles S. Brown, Philosophy, Emporia State University Ecological Communities that Bind (Obligate) Adam Konopka, Philosophy, Fordham University
185 Lillis	Revising, Resisting, and Retooling: Challenges to Dominant Environmentalism in Literature, Activism, and the Classroom Moderator: Christina L. Nelson, Botanical Research Institute of Texas Feminism, Veganism, Anti-Classism, and Anti-Racism: Theorizing Interlocking Oppressions from the Perspective of Resistance Jen McWeeny, Philosophy, John Carroll University Ecofeminism and a Politics of Performative Affinity Chaone Mallory, Philosophy, Villanova University Negotiating ‘Ecological Legitimacy’ in Literature, Activism, and the Classroom Sarah Jaquette, Environmental Studies & English, University of Oregon
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Session IX
128 Chiles	Cross-Species Encounters: Art, Etiquette, Architecture Moderator: Ryan Hediger, Writing and Rhetoric, University of Colorado, Boulder Iconic Comensalism: Public Transit and Endangered Species Todd Gilens, Artist, Curator, and Landscape Architect, San Francisco Ethical Affordances for an Environmental Etiquette Traci Warkentin, Environmental Studies, York University Ecology and the Architectural Imagination Brook Muller, Architecture, University of Oregon
111 Lillis	The Politics of Restoration and Conservation: Tensions and Strategies Moderator: Adam DeHeer, Philosophy, University of Oregon Collaborative Ecosystem Management and the Resolution of Environmental Value Conflicts: a case study of Shark Slough restoration in the Everglades Kathryn Frank, City and Regional Planning Program, Georgia Institute of Technology Biodiversity and its Effect on Disappearing Polder Villages: Against the Rationalization of Nature Preservation Glenn Deliège, Philosophy, Husserl-Archives Leuven Emancipating the Elite: Negotiating the Terrain of Collaboration and Complicity in Conservation Research Edward M. Maclin, Anthropology, University of Georgia
112 Lillis	Indigenous Perspectives on Knowledge and Place Moderator: Elizabeth Caldwell, Philosophy, University of Oregon Presenting the Sacred in Place: On Native North American Sacred Lands and Places Luan Fauteck Makes Marks, Advocacy for Native American Sacred Places Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Cultural Landscapes and Disjunctures between Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Melissa F. Baird, Anthropology, University of Oregon Lumberjacks and Manoominikewag: Ethical Relations to the Earth in Indigenous and American Myths Adam Arola, Philosophy, University of Oregon
175 Lillis	Theorizing Ecocriticism Moderator: Rachel Ann Hanan, English, University of Oregon Life in Words: Identifying with Nature through Literature Nathan Bell, Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas Ecocriticism and the Need to Build Bridges with the Scientific Disciplines Melissa Sexton, English, University of Oregon We Have Always Been Posthuman: Jakob von Uexküll and Zoological Posthumanism Michael Ziser, English, University of California, Davis
185 Lillis	Space/Place in Design, Knowledge, and Rhetoric Moderator: TBA Built Architecture as a Substrate for Sprouting Ecologies Garian Cika, Architecture, University of Oregon Dwelling on Thinking: Subjects and Environments in the Knowledge Economy Renée Valiquette, Social and Political Thought, York University Spatial Rhetorics: Place as (Invisible) Persuader Jodie Nicotra, English, University of Idaho & Randy Teal, Architecture, University of Idaho
3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.	Session X
111 Lillis	Sustainability, Daily Life, and the Biological Analogy Moderator: Christine Reynolds, Philosophy, University of Oregon Sustainability Then and Now: Transformation of Daily Life (in a German Town) Hajo Neis, Director, Portland Architecture Programs, University of Oregon The Flexible Hybridity of Shop/houses: Expanding the Definition of Urban Ecology Howard Davis, Architecture, University of Oregon The Architecture of Everyday Life: Toward an Ecology of Making Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director, Sustasis Foundation, Portland, Oregon
112 Lillis	Hegel & Marx: Dialectical Approaches to Ethics and Ecology Moderator: Jose Jorge Mendoza, Philosophy, University of Oregon An Ecosystem Ethic in Hegel's Logic of Life Wendell Kisner, Philosophy, Athabasca University Burrowing at the Roots: Marx's Method of Radical Political Ecology Jason Schreiner, Philosophy, Oregon State University Well Grubbed, Old Mole: Marx and Ecological Revolution John Bellamy Foster, Sociology, University of Oregon
175 Lillis	Deleuzo-Guattarian Ecologies Moderator: Thomas Nail, Philosophy, University of Oregon Machinic Environmentalism Andrew Lopez, Library and Information Studies, McGill University Designing with(in) the Post-industrial Landscape Shannon Tyman, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
185 Lillis	Living with Uncertainty: Predation and Climate Change Moderator: Louise Westling, English, University of Oregon An Environmentalist's Lament of Predation Ty Raterman, Philosophy, University of the Pacific Working with Climate Change's Uncertainties Lauren Hartzell, Philosophy, Stanford University
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Closing Keynote Address — 282 Lillis Hall Moderator: Brook Muller, Architecture, University of Oregon The Place of Architecture in Environmental Design ALBERTO PÉREZ-GÓMEZ Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture, McGill University

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