Philosophical Ecologies: Considerations of the Animal, the Vegetal and the Environmental
23rd Annual DePaul University Graduate Student Conference
February 12-13, 2016
Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Willett, Emory University
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 15th, 2015
Recent research in interspecies ethics, the place of plant life, and conceptions of the environmental testifies to escalating concerns regarding the insufficiency of existing interrogations into the historical privileging of some forms of life over others. These concerns emerge from a long history of global injustices that have resulted in environmental degradation as well as marginalization of both human and nonhuman populations through such practices as speciation, colonization, feminization, criminalization and dehumanization. This conference highlights the particularly urgent need for more rigorously articulated philosophies of the animal, the vegetal, and the environmental and seeks to reconsider conceptual boundaries between natural and artificial spaces and concepts of life.
Papers addressing environmental, animal, or food ethics, theoretical distinctions of the human and nonhuman, environmental aesthetics, dehumanization, eco-feminism, and any other topic related to these themes from graduate students working in any discipline are welcome.
Please send submissions of 3000 words or less, prepared for blind review to depaul.philosophy@gmail.com Include your name, paper title, and institutional affiliation in your email.