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We invite proposals for individual papers and group and panel sessions. The organizers encourage submissions from scholars, thinkers, artists, students and activists from all disciplines, perspectives and fields of endeavor, and from anywhere in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Past participants in the conference have included representatives from agriculture, the arts, biology/ecology/environmental science, business/management, education, economics, environmental interpretation, forestry, geology, government, history, law, literary studies, natural resource management, philosophy, psychology, recreational wilderness users and religion.
Featured speakers will include
- Bill McKibben, environmental writer, author of The End of Nature and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age.
- Amy Vedder, ecologist and primatologist, co-author of In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land.
- Joe Bruchac, Native American writer, editor and activist, author of Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values through Storytelling and Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children.
- Holmes Rolston, III, environmental philosopher, winner of the 2003 Templeton Prize, author of Conserving Natural Value and Genes, Genesis and God.
Previously held at Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) and the University of Nevada, Reno, the conference is being held in the Northeastern United States for the first time.
Paper topics may address any environmental issue/subject under the broad conference theme. Issues with wide-ranging North American importance are particularly apt, such as preservation, restoration, environmental themes in literature, wilderness, urban environmental issues, endangered species, ecosystem management, history, ecofeminism, regulation, environmental justice and environmental philosophy. Papers connecting environmental concerns with national security and/or patriotism are, of course, timely and appropriate.
Send one page abstracts (preferably via e-mail, Microsoft Word attachments) by November 1, 2003 to Environ.Conference@esc.edu. Please include your complete address, institutional affiliation if any, phone number and e-mail address.
Elaine Handley
Wayne Ouderkirk
Empire State College
28 Union Avenue
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Fax: 518 255-5809
Phone: 518 255-5320 or 518 587-2100 ext. 386
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