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PRIZE – Holmes Rolston, III – 2nd Annual Early Career Essay Prize

The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) and the Center for Environmental Philosophy invite submissions for its annual essay prize for scholars in the early stages of their career. The prize is named in honour of Professor Holmes Rolston III, for his pioneering work in the field of environmental philosophy.
THE PRIZE
Papers are invited on all aspects of environmental philosophy or environmental affairs (with a strong theoretical component). A prize of $500 will be awarded to the winning essay.
All submitted papers that qualify (see conditions) will be reviewed by an Essay Prize Committee in consultation with the Editorial Board of Environmental Ethics. The winning essay will be published in the journal, Environmental Ethics.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND CONDITIONS
-Closing date for submissions: *June 1st, 2012*
-Eligibility: Submissions are invited from scholars who already hold a PhD and have earned their doctorate no more than five years prior to the submission deadline. Submissions must be accompanied by a one-page CV to provide evidence of early career status.
-Word limit: 60,000 characters (including spaces), including notes and references. An abstract of 100-150 words should also be included.
-Style: consult the Chicago Manual of Style or any recent issue of Environmental Ethics.
-Essays must be prepared for blind review (cover page with contact information and email on a separate page).
-Submissions should be emailed to: Emily.Brady@ed.ac.uk. Please put ‘Essay Prize’ in the subject line of the email submission.
-The essay should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to any other journal until the outcome of the competition is announced.
-The decision of the committee will be final. There is only one prize per year and the committee reserves the right not to award the prize if submissions are not of an appropriate standard.
Dr. Emily Brady
President, International Society for Environmental Ethics
University of Edinburgh, Emily.Brady@ed.ac.uk
Dr. Eugene C. Hargrove
Center for Environmental Philosophy
University of North Texas, cep@unt.edu


http://iseethics.org/2011/10/03/prize-%e2%80%93-holmes-rolston-iii-%e2%80%93-early-career-essay-prize-2012/

Call for Papers ECPR Graduate Conference 4-6 July 2012, Bremen

The Distributive Effects of Environmental Politics:

 National and International Perspectives

Environmental problems like climate change, biodiversity loss, overfishing, or waste disposal can have significantly negative impacts on human wellbeing. Much research has been devoted to the problem-solving quality of environmental policy measures. Yet it is frequently disregarded that environmental politics can also have considerable (re)distributive effects on national and international levels.

Domestically, politics that are targeted exclusively at mitigating ecological problems are likely to reinforce differences in wealth. For instance, transport politics that are limited to reducing private fuel consumption by raising gas petrol prices may particularly lower the mobility of poorer segments of the population. Internationally, the distributive effects of environmental politics are particularly pronounced in North-South relations. Most recent environmental agreements contain clauses on technology transfer and financial support. But it remains contested whether this suffices to balance the unequal burdens that many agreements impose on developed and developing countries.

We invite papers which address the distributive effects of national or international environmental politics from any of the following three perspectives.

Descriptive: In the first place, we need to know more about the distributive consequences of environmental politics. For instance: Who benefits most from international environmental treaties or national legislation? Who bears the costs?

Analytical: We also look for explanations for the observed patterns. Key questions may be: How much influence do national economic structures have on distributive inequalities? Internationally, what influence does the problem structure have on distributive outcomes? What kinds of institutional arrangements can serve to mitigate socially undesirable effects of environmental politics?

Evaluative: Here we ask for example: To what extent are national or international policies consistent with norms of distributive justice? Do we observe conflicts between environmental (effectiveness) and social (fairness) goals? Do particular policies fare better or worse in the light of one conception of justice than in the light of others?

Please submit your proposals of maximum 300 words by December 20, 2011 to both Ina Lehmann (ina.lehmann@iniis.uni-bremen.de) and André Schaffrin (schaffrin@wiso.uni-koeln.de). Please include in your abstract your institutional affiliation and email address.

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Doctoral Candidate
Research Training Group SOCLIFE
Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
University of Cologne

Richard-Strauß Str. 2, 50931 Koeln
Tel. ++ 49 221 470-1246
e-mail: schaffrin@wiso.uni-koeln.de
http://www.soclife.uni-koeln.de/

The 2012 ISE Intensive on Revolutionary Democratic Social Change

Drawing immense inspiration from the Occupy Movement, this year’s ISE Intensive will focus on providing tools to deepen our analysis, historical knowledge, and strategic visions for revolutionary democratic social change.  The 8-day intensive will offer seminars on:

• Alternatives to Capitalism;
• Direct Democracy;
• Philosophy and Politics of Social Ecology;
• Food and Climate Justice;
• Designing Democratic Organizations,
• Aligning with Frontline Communities,
• Liberating Land for Community Control; and
• Revolutionary Arts, Media and Culture

Please join us!

What Is the ISE?

For more than thirty years, the Institute for Social Ecology has been offering educational programs on radical social and ecological transformation. The ISE views the penetration of systems of domination and homogenization of culture as impediments to human freedom and as the root causes of the ecological crisis.  It is the ISE’s core belief that humans have the potential to foster vibrant, self-governing communities free from hierarchy, social inequity, and ecological degradation.
*Note to Second Year Students: We invite you to organize additional independent studies during the Intensive.
Dates: January 7 – 15, 2012
Classes will be held from 9AM to 6PM Daily
Location: The Intensive will be held at the Brecht Forum http://brechtforum.org/about
Tuition Cost: $200 (scholarship application available upon request)

http://www.social-ecology.org/2011/11/the-2012-ise-intensive-on-revolutionary-democratic-social-change/

Newcastle Animal Ethics and Sustainable Food Policy

Conference announcement and programme
Newcastle Animal Ethics and Sustainable Food Policy Conference. A 'Minding Animals International' Pre-conference

1. Date and venue
Friday 2 December 2011; 9.30-17.00 hrs
Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark Building, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

2. Objectives of the conference
This conference will provide an opportunity to bring together the best scholars working on the intersections between animal ethics, sustainability, and food policy, and to develop further capacity and stimulate community action in this field.
The focus of the conference will be on the following question:

'How should the UK Government regulate the consumption of animal products?'

Conference papers will be disseminated to delegates before the event.

3. Conference programme
9.30-10.00: Welcome and coffee
10.00: Introduction to the day (Cristina Fernandez-Garcia, Newcastle University)
10.15: Agriculture, animal welfare and climate change: an analysis of sustainable intensification and radical naturalism as responses to the impending perfect storm (Steven McCulloch, The Royal Veterinary College)
11.10: An exploration of animal abuse in the increased scale and industrialisation of pig farming. (Tanya Wyatt, Northumbria University)
12.05: Lunch and social break
13.30: Given the strong causal link between the consumption of animal products and ill health, how can the UK government use its health and farming policies to reduce the intake of animal products? (Maureen Robertson and Keith Robertson, The Scottish School of Herbal Medicine)
14.25: A case for legislation against wild meat (Tony Milligan, University of Aberdeen)
15.20: Coffee and social break
16.05: A reflection on the day and an introduction to the UK vegan project (Jan Deckers, Newcastle University)
17.00: Closure of formal programme and opening of informal discussion over dinner.

4. Academic organising committee
*       Jan Deckers (conference chair, Newcastle University)
*       Cristina Fernandez-Garcia (Newcastle University)
*       Jonny Anomaly (University of North Carolina and Duke University).
*       Rod Bennison (CEO, Minding Animals International)

5. Registration
Early registration is recommended as places are limited. To register, please complete the booking form at http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=1993

Participants are advised to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Options for accommodation include: Premier Inn Newcastle Central, Newbridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8BS; Premier Inn Newcastle City Centre (Millennium Bridge) City Road, Quay Side, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2AN; Royal Station Hotel, Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5DH; Jurys Inn Newcastle, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4AD.

6. An expression of thanks
The organising committee is grateful for the support provided by the following organisations: Beacon North East, Fuse, the Institute of Health and Society, Minding Animals International, and NIReS (Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability).

CALL FOR PAPERS: ―Environmental Humanities & the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity, Cyprus

April 15, 2012
Theme
Environmental issues are typically framed within public discourse as problems that require empirical information and technological solutions. This paradigm holds not only scientific but also philosophical assumptions, most importantly that the real world is the one described by natural science, the world of scientific realism. In this worldview, all other disciplines (such as ethics, the qualitative social sciences, and politics and policy) are assimilated as ―tools in the toolbox‖ used to solve the problems previously defined by Western science. The intensity of current environmental crises—especially global climate destabilization—energizes this focus on practical problem-solving and on technological and policy solutions within existing institutional, economic, and political frameworks. However, this approach fails to recognize that the humanistic disciplines, including philosophy, literature, and the arts, both construct and express knowledge of nature that exceeds the bounds of problem-solving and the ontology of scientific realism. Further, claims about nature that appeal to the authority of Western science, though masked as objective, are frequently deployed to undergird ideological constructions about race, class, gender, and nation; the authority to make claims about nature is inseparable from political power.
Underlying this default position of the natural sciences is the unexamined assumption that environmental problems are encountered independently of any context, values, history, or disciplinary biases. Humanities scholars in the emerging fields of ecocriticism, environmental art, environmental philosophy, and related areas of inquiry vigorously challenge this assumption, arguing that our environmental problems are inescapably ethical, historical, and political. The very definitions of environmental problems at any given moment are a function of human ideas and negotiations that have a particular cultural location and history and that reflect specific concepts of ethical responsibility and justice. Consequently, the methods of the natural sciences, although necessary for meeting our environmental challenges, cannot replace the interpretive, critical, and artistic methods of the humanities. The emergence of the ―environmental humanities,‖ as a multidisciplinary site of convergence within academic scholarship, responds to this need.
This workshop will engage with the emerging disciplines of the environmental humanities to pose a series of questions, including:
1. How are the methods and epistemology of the humanities distinct from those of the empirical sciences?
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2. What would a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to questions of the environment look like, and how can this be negotiated within current institutional limitations?
3. What impact can the humanities have on public discourse and political will in specific areas, such as environmental justice and climate change?
Submission Procedure
Please submit two-page abstracts by email in Word format to the workshop organizers. Each presenter will have 20 minutes and is asked to present rather than read a paper. Abstracts of accepted presentations will be circulated to the participants in advance of the conference.
Conference Proceedings
Final versions of the papers (not to exceed 3,000 words, or 10 double-spaced pages, including notes) will be reviewed by the workshop organizers for possible publication in the conference proceedings.
The Conference
This workshop is planned under the auspices of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, on the theme ―The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‗The Three Narratives‘—Art, Science, and Philosophy.‖ For more information, visit ISSEI‘s website at http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/.
The Venue
The workshop will be held at the University of Cyprus – Main Campus, Kallipoleos Avenue 75, Nicosia 2100 Cyprus.
Contacts . CALL FOR PAPERS: ―Environmental Humanities & the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity.‖ Workshop at the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, ―The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‗The Three Narratives‘—Art, Science, and Philosophy.‖ University of Cyprus, Nicosia, July 2 – 6, 2012 ALL 2011 27  Janet Fiskio Environmental Studies Oberlin College jfiskio@oberlin.edu  Ted Toadvine Philosophy and Environmental Studies University of Oregon. toadvine@uoregon.edu

European Network for Environmental Ethics

 

The  European network for environmental ethics was formally established at a assembly on June 16, 2011, at the  conference Old World-New World Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy, that was held in Nijmegen, Netherlands,

Aim of the network is to provide a platform for all those working in the field of (academic) environmental ethics and philosophy in Europe to meet, exchange ideas and cooperate on new projects. ENEE will have a 'light' organizational structure, and will work together with the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) and the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP). 

The ENEE network will first and foremost be a platform for individual environmental philosophers and ethicists in Europe, and for national and regional groups of environmental ethicists.  Our hope is that this network will help to promote European environmental philosophy, and stimulate cooperation and exchange between European environmental philosophers. The aim for the not-too-distant future is to organize substantial activities in environmental ethics and philosophy, such as organizing international conferences every two years.

The network has just started. This wiki-website is meant as a platform where we can meet and exchange ideas. The wiki-form makes it possible that the network grows organically, 'from bottom up' as it were, and prevents that one single person has to bear all the workload involved. Many hands will make light work. 

This wiki page is hosted by Louke van Wensveen and Martin Drenthen, but all European environmental ethicists / philosophers are invited to join and help transform this website into a flourishing web community.

We envision that this site will hold of a list of environmental ethicists and philosophers working in Europe (we primarily want to address those who are seriously involved in academic environmental ethics/philosophy (broadly conceived), pages where individual member present there line of research, and a calendar listing all interesting happenings (lectures, workshops, conferences) in Europe in the field of environmental ethics.

A note on the wiki format
The wiki format enables all those with the proper privileges to add new content to this site. I hope that all you will feel free to add to the success of this site, for the success of our network depends on it to a large degree.  Please add yourself to the list of members (at least with your name and affiliation, country, contact address, and a short description of your research interests). We hope you will also contribute to the calendar by adding lectures, workshops, conferences in Europe that you believe could be of interest to your fellow environmental ethicists. 
But you can also add radically new sections to the page (e.g. a special page in your own language), start a discussion, or add something new that others have not yet thought of...  All who wish to contribute to this wiki page should contact the administrators of the site, to grant you access.

There also exists two shorter URL's for this website: (http://eegroup.pbworks.com/w/page/41657492/European-Network-for-Environmental-Ethics)
http://tinyurl.com/EUEnvironmentalEthics  and http://tinyurl.com/EUNetworkEnvironmentalEthics).