Animal and Earth Advocacy
Animal and Earth Advocacy: Links of Life
Saturday
February 23, 2008
Montana State University Billings SUB
Sponsored by
International Conference for Critical Animal Studies (6th annual)
Green Theory and Praxis
MSU-B Philosophy Faculty
Organized by: Dr. Lisa Kemmerer (MSU-B), lkemmerer@msubillings.edu
Just out of the starting gates of the 21st century, the world is experiencing tremendous change. From devastating hurricanes and earthquakes to an increase in endangered species, from severe drought to diminished and depleted forests, from the collapse of fisheries to global warming. What specific problems face nonhuman animals and the earth? How are environmental problems linked to animal exploitation? What shared issues unite environmental and nonhuman animal advocacy? How might animal and earth advocates address these shared global concerns through education, the arts, ethics, justice, culture, science, history, technology, policy, media, economics, and spirituality?
We invite proposals from all community members, including but not limited to nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, and students. We are especially interested in topics reaching across the disciplines of environmental and animal advocacy. Paper presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length.
Deadline for proposals: January 1, 2008. Please send no more than 500 words.
We are receptive to different and innovative formats, including, but not limited to roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theatre, and workshops. You may propose individual or group ‘panel’ presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal. Preference will be given to papers focusing on links between environmental and nonhuman animal advocacy (the program theme).
Accepted presenters will be notified (by email) January 15, 2008.
Please send proposals, abstracts, and biographies electronically to Dr. L. Kemmerer at lkemmerer@msubillings.
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