Reimagining the Good Life: Sustainability Ethics in Theory and Practice
Reimagining the Good Life: Sustainability Ethics in Theory and Practice
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Breakfast 8:30 AM
Keynote 9:00 AM
Session I 10:00 AM
Session II 11:30 AM
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues)
New York, NY 10065
L-R: Dale Jamieson, Sahotra Sarkar, Evelyn Brister, Kyle Powys Whyte, Samuel Truett
Please join us for a half-day conference on sustainability ethics and resilience. The conference, scheduled Wednesday, April 18, 2018, brings together philosophers and other environmental theorists to address questions at the intersection of sustainability, philosophy, and ethics. These questions include: How can we revise our idea of “the good life” to promote sustainability? How do we balance our responsibilities toward future generations against our responsibilities to those alive now? What are the possibilities and prospects for indigenous environmental resistance? Finally, what are our moral obligations in an era in which we can no longer rely exclusively on our governments to solve our most urgent environmental problems?
Conference Schedule
8:30 to 9:00 AM – Breakfast
9:00 to 10:00 AM – Keynote Address: Who’s Responsible for Climate Change?
Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University
1o:oo to 10:25 AM – Session I: What New Conservation Should Be
Sahotra Sarkar, Professor of Integrative Biology and of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
10:25 to 10:55 AM – Session I: Sustainability, Forests, and Forks in the Road
Evelyn Brister, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
10:50 to 11:15 AM – General discussion
11:15 to 11:30 AM – Coffee break
11:30 to 11:55 AM – Session II: Critical Investigations of Resilience and Justice: Indigenous Environmental Studies
Kyle Powys Whyte, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability, Michigan State University
11:55 AM to 12:20 PM – Session II: Rethinking the Global Past to Imagine a Sustainable Planetary Future
Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
12:20 to 12:45 PM – General discussion
