THE ISEE ANNUAL MEETING

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“ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS”

THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS MEETING ON ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 

June 27– June 30 in Anchorage, Alaska

Alaska Pacific University and University of Alaska, Anchorage

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

June 27: Carr Gottstien Academic Center, Alaska Pacific University

5:00: Introduction and Welcome to Alaska

5:15-6:30: Presentation Paper

  1. Steve Gardiner, “Motivating (or Baby-stepping towards) a Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations”

6:30: Welcome Reception (Dinner on our own)

June 28: Carr Gottstien Academic Center, Alaska Pacific University

8:00 Coffee

8:50-10:30: Two Pre-read Discussion Papers

  1. Kimberly Dill, “In Defense of Wild Night”; Commentator: Mark Woods
  2. Christopher Dunn, “Finding and Losing Meaning in Melting Arctic Landscapes”; Commentator: Kyle Powys Whyte

10:40-12:00: Two Presentation Papers

  1. Alexander Pho and Allen Thompson, “What was the Last Man Thinking? Intrinsic Value Skepticism Meets Metaethical Realism”
  2. Marion Hourdequin, “Environmental Ethics and Relational Virtue in Zhuangzi and Leopold”

12:00 Lunch

12:40-2:20: Two Pre-read Discussion Papers

  1. Yasha Rohwer, “Gene Drives, Species, and Compassion for Individuals in Conservation Biology”; Commentator: Marion Hourdequin
  2. Paula Valencia, “Environmental Justice and Extreme Environments”; Commentator: Christopher Preston

2:30-3:50:  Two Presentation Papers

  1. Mark Woods, “An Elephant in the Room: Climate Change and US National Security”
  2. Simona Capisani, “What We Owe to Climate Refugees”

4:00-5:00: ISEE Annual Business Meeting

5:00-7:00: Kyle Powys Whyte, Keynote “An Approach to Teaching and Researching Indigenous Environmental Justice and Ethics”

7:00-9:00: Group Dinner – Pub/Pizzas in town (food on us, drinks on you)

  

June 29: Consortium Library 3rd floor, University of Alaska, Anchorage

8:15: Coffee

8:50-10:30: Two Pre-read Discussion Papers

  1. Daniel Callies, “A Framework for Geoengineering Procedural Justice”; Commentator: Robert Melchior Figueroa
  2. Eric Brandstedt, “Pure Procedural Climate Justice”; Commentator: Russell Powell

10:40-12:00: Two Presentation Papers

  1. Russell Powell, “John Muir, Alaska’s Native Peoples, and the Power of Shame”
  2. Piers Stephens, “Le Feu Vert (“The Green Light”): Bringing Bernard Charbonneau’s Pathbreaking Environmental Philosophy into Contemporary Anglophone Debates”

12:00 Lunch

12:40-2:20: Two Pre-read Discussion Papers

  1. Ben Mylius, “The Anthropocene Transformation of Philosophy”; Commentator: Piers Stephens
  2. Roger Kaye, “The Untrammeled Wild and Wilderness Character in the Anthropocene”; Commentator: Allen Thompson

2:20-7:15: Free Time/Hikes/ Dinner on our own

 

June 30: Carr Gottstien Academic Center, Alaska Pacific University

8:00: coffee

8:50-10:30: One Pre-read Papers

  1. Christopher Preston, “How Not to Think About Climate Justice in Arctic Alaska” Commentator: Avram Hiller
  2. Olle Torpman, “In Defense of Emissions Egalitarianism”; Commentator: Benjamin Hale

10:40-12:00: Two Presentation Papers

  1. Robert Melchior Figueroa, “Maria and the Moral Terrains of Extreme Environmental Justice”
  2. Byron Kaldis, “Post-Normal Science, Environmental Justice and Deep Citizenship”

12:00 Conference close

1:00–5:00 Optional Hikes