CLIMATE CHANGE: VIEWS FROM THE HUMANITIES
A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE
Panel 12: Intergenerational Ethics
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The Extinction Paradox
Martin Bunzl, Rutgers University
It is often argued that by harming the planet we are violating the rights of future people by making their lives worse off. What happens however, if we harm the planet so much that no future people can even live, how can we wrong them if they will never come into being? This presentation explores this seeming paradox and its implications towards our relationship with the environment (more).
Risk, Uncertainty, and Climate Change
Richard Cohen, University of California, San Diego
This talk explores the difference between risk and true uncertainty in light of climate change events, which the author argues follows more of true uncertainty. Through a humanities lens which embraces uncertainty in the form of mysteries, this talk advocates a similar embrace in the sciences, one that gives full credence to the unmeasurable facts of human subjectivity, emotionality, and spirituality (more).
Ontological Problems in Intergenerational Climate Ethics
Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University
Climate change debates over justice are inherently complex because not only are our actions affecting people today but will affect them generations to come. As a result, the ethics surrounding such actions are by no means clear cut. This presentation will analyze the debate of whether our current ethical system is sufficient to consider these options, and if not, what needs to be done to address these deficiencies (more).
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Spring 2016 Climate Futures film series.
4/21, 5/5, 5/19, 6/2
6:00 – 8:30 PM
South Hall 2617
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Upcoming UCSB US-China Forum on Climate Change featured in the Santa Barbara Independent.
See full story in the Santa Barbara Independent
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Topic 3: Collective intelligence and the online Q&A session
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Topic 3: Collective intelligence and the online Q&A session
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Topic 2: Humanities and sciences, working together
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Topic 2: Why climate change cannot be solved without the humanities
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Topic 1: How and why we did it – practices & technologies
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Topic 1: How and why we did it – practices & technologies
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Opening Remarks
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OPENING REMARKS
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Ken Hiltner
Academic Conferences 2.0
Ken Hiltner is a Professor of the environmental humanities at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). The Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI), Hiltner has appointments in the English and Environmental Studies Departments. He has published five books, including Milton and Ecology, What Else is Pastoral?, Renaissance Ecology, and Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader, as well as a range of environmentally oriented articles. Prior to becoming a professor, for many years he made his living as a furniture maker
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New English course at UCSB examines “The Rhetoric of Climate Change.”
See full story in the UCSB Current
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Panel 14: Ecopsychology
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Panel 14: Ecopsychology
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Paradoxical Perspectives on Cultural Psychotherapy: What is a Cultural Intervention?
Chris Robertson, Climate Psychology Alliance (speaking on his own behalf)
Seldom addressed in COP21 were the underlying cultural and social dynamics that constrain people from acting in ways that fit their espoused values. This talk seeks to address these issues by looking at how psychotherapists are able to understand these cultural dynamics and complexes that may hinder environmental action (more).
Against Anthropocene and for the Ecocritical Psyche
Susan Rowland, Pacifica Graduate Institute
This paper seeks to shed light on the ecocritical psyche. Made possible through Jung’s psychoanalysis, it teaches that what we know of climate change remains open and receptive to epistemologies of intuition, embodied knowing, feeling, eros, connectivity and creativity, as well as the rational disciplines that dominate the scientific Anthropocene. Tackling climate change requires re-membering the humanities as necessary partner to rejuvenation (more).
On The Brink of Extinction
Jon Mills, Adler Graduate Professional School
Are we on the brink of human extinction? This paper delves into the risks humanities faces, risks that primarily are due to our own actions. Acknowledging the interconnected planetary ecological crisis we have initiative that may precipitate such a collapse of civilization, this talk forces us to consider the real possibility of actions that could lead to our demise (more).
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Panel 13: Theory
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Panel 13: Theory
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What Might Critical Plant Studies Contribute to Climate Change Discourse?
John Ryan, University of Western Australia
The field of “critical plant studies” has been growing recently, a field which attempts to follow in the steps of “human-animal studies” and grant agency and autonomy–and therefore more rights–to plants. This paper looks at how these studies may further climate change discourse, as the plant world has already seen well-documented disturbances from climatic events. (more).
Public Folklore and Environments, Environmental Folklore: Methods in Documenting Vernacular Cultures of Response to Ecological Change
Jess Lamar Reece Holler & Bethani Turley, University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University
Folklorists have long grappled with questions concerning the environment. This talk will explore this rich history and take up the urgent opportunity of folkloristic perspectives on environment in the Anthropocene (more).
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Panel 12: Intergenerational Ethics
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Panel 12: Intergenerational Ethics
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The Extinction Paradox
Martin Bunzl, Rutgers University
It is often argued that by harming the planet we are violating the rights of future people by making their lives worse off. What happens however, if we harm the planet so much that no future people can even live, how can we wrong them if they will never come into being? This presentation explores this seeming paradox and its implications towards our relationship with the environment (more).
Risk, Uncertainty, and Climate Change
Richard Cohen, University of California, San Diego
This talk explores the difference between risk and true uncertainty in light of climate change events, which the author argues follows more of true uncertainty. Through a humanities lens which embraces uncertainty in the form of mysteries, this talk advocates a similar embrace in the sciences, one that gives full credence to the unmeasurable facts of human subjectivity, emotionality, and spirituality (more).
Ontological Problems in Intergenerational Climate Ethics
Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University
Climate change debates over justice are inherently complex because not only are our actions affecting people today but will affect them generations to come. As a result, the ethics surrounding such actions are by no means clear cut. This presentation will analyze the debate of whether our current ethical system is sufficient to consider these options, and if not, what needs to be done to address these deficiencies (more).
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