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>From: Brett Werner <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [ISEE-L] DEADLINE EXTENDED: 2nd Midwest Environmental Ethics 
>Conference              (2/15/06; 5/6/06)
>Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:42:29 -0600
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>***DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb. 15, 2006***
>
>Call for Proposals
>The 2nd Midwest Environmental Ethics Conference: "Making Ethics Visible"
>St. Paul, Minnesota
>May 6, 2006
>
>Conference Sponsors:
>--Department of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas
>--Program on Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Ethics, University
>of Minnesota
>--Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
>--Minnesota Association for Environmental Education
>
>Featured Speakers:
>--J. Baird Callicott, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas
>--Andrew Light, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of
>Washington
>--Peter Bell, Chair, Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities
>
>The organizing committee for the 2nd Midwest Environmental Ethics
>Conference invites proposals from academic philosophers, natural
>resource professionals, environmental education practitioners, and
>interested community members for papers, panels, roundtables,
>workshops, and other presentations that address the role of
>environmental ethics in community decision-making.
>
>The committee specifically invites proposals that address the
>conference theme -- "Making Ethics Visible" -- by answering the
>following question: "how can your academic discipline, professional
>expertise, or personal insight contribute to making ethical
>practices, principles, and/or assumptions visible in community
>decision-making about the environment?" Proposals that address the
>environment of the Midwest and/or environmental education are
>especially encouraged.
>
>Presenters may also wish to address one or more of the following
>related questions:
>--what ethical practices, principles, and assumptions are involved in
>community decision-making about the environment? how are theoretical
>issues in environmental ethics related to actual communities, issues,
>and decision-making processes?
>--who constitutes the "community" in community decision-making? who
>gets to make the decisions, and how is this decided? who is affected
>by these decisions, and what role do these parties have in the
>decision-making process? are the values promoted in environmental
>decisions shared by the affected communities?
>--how does community decision-making function at different temporal
>and spatial scales? what role can future generations play? what role
>can people in distant lands play? what is the relationship between
>local, regional, and global communities? what is the relationship
>between communities of interest and communities of place?
>--how are ethical conflicts resolved? which methods of conflict
>resolution have proven most effective, and why?
>--what role can environmental educators play in community decision-
>making? how should environmental ethics be incorporated into
>environmental education? how do environmental ethics and the ethics
>of education interact in the delivery of environmental education?
>
>Morning keynote addresses by J. Baird Callicott and Andrew Light will
>be followed by a panel discussion with Peter Bell and other policy-
>makers that will model how to make ethics visible in community
>decision-making, using the issue of suburban sprawl as a case study.
>Following lunch, four hour-long concurrent sessions will promote an
>interdisciplinary dialogue between academics, professionals,
>environmental educators, and community members. A variety of session
>proposals will be considered -- including papers, panels,
>roundtables, discussions, and workshops -- but all presentations will
>be limited to 30 minutes, so that 30 minutes of audience discussion
>and participation can follow. Conference organizers will chair the
>concurrent sessions and will review all proposals prior to acceptance.
>
>Send one-page proposals by 15 February 2006 to:
>
>Heidi Giebel
>Department of Philosophy, #JRC 241
>University of St. Thomas
>St. Paul, MN 55105
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Phone: 651-962-5367
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>Please include the title of your proposed presentation, your
>institutional affiliation (if any), and your contact information.
>Requests for audio-visual equipment must accompany the proposal.
>Electronic submissions are encouraged.
>
>Registration materials will be made available on or around 1 March
>2006. We will also have a web site linked to <http://www.stthomas.edu/
>phil/> and <http://www.agricola.umn.edu/ethics/>.
>
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