2002 Annual Program

Loyola University

Chicago, Illinois

October 12-14, 2002

(accommodation information below)

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12

8:30pm

IAEP Guest Speaker

"Goethean Science as a Phenomenology of Nature"

David Seamon

Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University; author A Geography of the Lifeworld; and Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature; and editor of the SUNY Series in Architectural and Environmental Phenomenology

IAEP Reception to follow:

Marquette Center, Santa Clara Lounge

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

 

Registration: Sunday 9:00-10:00 a.m., Marquette Center: Santa Clara Lounge, Lobby

Sunday 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Session I: Marquette Center Lower Level: Room Thirty

Following Nature from Asia

Moderator: Allen Larsen, Slippery Rock State University

"Nature, Once Removed: Intimacy, Alienation, and the Environment in South-India Nature Writing," Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College

"Following Nature with Mengzi or Zhuangzi," Franklin Perkins, DePaul University

"Nature and Buddha-Nature Face to Face," Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology

Session II: Marquette Center Lower Level: Alumnae Lounge

Education and Environment

Moderator: Ken Liberman, University of Oregon

"The Moral Poverty of Education as Simulation," Kathryn Wayne Ross, Western Washington University

"Earth, Eros, Education: Towards a Poetics of Place and Consciousness," Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University

"Gadamer and the Otherness of Nature: Elements for an Environmental Education," Mauro Grün, University of Caxias do Sul

Session III: Marquette Center Lower Level: Faculty Lounge

Virtues of Nature

Moderator: Larry Cahoone, College of the Holy Cross

"The External Goods Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics," Ron Sandler, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

"Environmental Conditions and the Ethics of Capabilities," Breena Holland, University of Chicago

"The Price of Motherhood: Mother Earth, Reciprocity for a Caring Planet, and the Limits of Homo Faber," Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock State University

 

Sunday 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Session I: Marquette Center Lower Level: Room Thirty

Count Dracula Haunts Walden Pond: Modalities of Environmental Consciousness

Moderator: Diane Michelfelder, Indiana State University

"Environmental Critique and the Capitalist Ethos: A Contribution Based on the Philosophy of Max Scheler," John White, Franciscan University

"Breaking Patterns of Dislocation: From Ghouls, Vampires and Aesthetes to Enmeshment with the Environment," Glen Mazis, Soka University/Penn State University Harrisburg

"The Greening of an American Mind: The Paradoxical Environmental Legacy of Henry David Thoreau," Robert L. Grant, St. Ambrose University

Session II: Marquette Center Lower Level: Alumnae Lounge

Deliberating the Natural

Moderator: James Hatley, Salisbury State University

"Faking Nature: Aristotle, Restoration, and the Alberta Oilpatch," Trish Glazebrook, Moravian College

"Gavagai Goulash: Growing Organs for Food," Benjamin Hale, SUNY at Stony Brook

"Power/Knowledge and Environmental Conflict: The Case of Cattle," Jonathan Maskit, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam

Session III: Marquette Center Lower Level: Faculty Lounge

Process, Hermeneutics, and Nomadism: Three Discourses of Environmental Philosophy

Moderator: David Wood, Vanderbilt University

"Whitehead's Speculative Philosophy of Organism: Process Metaphysical Reflections on/in 'Radical' Environmental Activism," Jonathan M. Gray and Cathy B. Glen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

"Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, and Gadamer's Hermeneutics," W. S. K. Cameron, Loyola Marymount University

"Nietzsche as the Inventor of Geophilosophy," Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond

Sunday 3:45-5:20 Marquette Center Lower Level: Room Thirty

Plenary Roundtable Discussion: Nature and Language

"Language at Large," Irene Klaver, University of North Texas

"Singing the World in a New Key: Towards a Theory of Natural Expression," Ted Toadvine, Emporia State University

"The Silence of Nature," Steven Vogel, Denison University

Sunday 5:30-6:15 Marquette Center Presidents' Room:

IAEP BUSINESS MEETING

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14

IAEP SYMPOSIUM:

DWELLING(S): THE CITY AND BEYOND

 

Monday 9:00-11:00 a.m. Marquette Center Lower Level: Alumnae Lounge

The Place of Dwelling

Moderator: Kenneth Maly, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse

"The Philosophy of Place, Place Studies, and the Power of Story, " Leslie Van Gelder, Oxford University

"Wilderness, the Wild and Nature Made Homely," Dennis Skocz

"Oikos and Domus: On Constructive Co-Habitation with Other Creatures," Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University

"What is an Ethics of Place?," Ingrid Stefanovic, University of Toronto

Monday 11:15 a.m.- 1:15 p.m.: Marquette Center Lower Level: Alumnae Lounge

The Contemporary City: From Suburbs to Sustainability

Moderator: Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College

"Trash Talk: A Phenomenological Study of Litter (and Detroit), " D.R. Koukal, University of Detroit Mercy

"Citizenship in the New Suburbs: Bike Trails, Forest Preserves, and Democratic Participation," Willem Bakker, Washington University

"A Multivalent Approach to Landscape Criticism," Robert Kirkman, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Dwelling in/and the city: a Marx/Heidegger Conversation," Bill Martin, DePaul University

Facilities, Accommodations, and Registration:

All sessions will be held at Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus. Group rate accommodations are available at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel. 163 E. Walton Place at N.Michigan Ave., Telephone (312) 751-8100 and (866) 866-8086, for $179, and at Homewood Suites, 40 E. Grand Ave., (312) 644-2222 for $179.

To receive these rates, participants must identify themselves as attending the IAEP conference and make their reservations by September 11. Conference registration will take place Saturday, from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m., outside the Lewis Tower Ballroom, and Sunday, from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., in the Marquette Center Lobby near the Santa Clara Lounge