| 8:00 - 4:00 |
REGISTRATION (University Inn - Boardroom)
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| 6:30 - 8:30 |
BREAKFAST (University Inn - Dining Room)
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| 8:30 - 10:00 |
PAPER SESSION 1
Session 1A (Burgett Pavilion 115)
Narratives and Meanings: The Stories that Places Tell
Moderator: Trevor Bechtel, Bluffton University
"Re-creation's Shadow Side: Exploring Narratives of Apocalypse"
Robin Globus, University of Florida
"Symbolic Structures and the Meaning of Place"
Arsenio Rodrigues, Prairie View A & M University
Session 1B (Burgett Pavilion 133)
Environmental Reconfigurations and Representations
Moderator: Michael Loughlin, Ohio Northern University
"Replacing Ice With Water: Repercussions of Climate Change on a Sense of Place"
Todd LeVasseur, University of Florida
"The Frozen Landscape: Picturing Global Warming"
Alicia Lubowski, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
Session 1C (Burgett Pavilion 134)
Restoration and the Sacred
Moderator: Erica Neely, Ohio Northern University
"Sacred Geography: Making Meanings at Walden Pond"
Joy Ackerman, Antioch University New England
"Reclaiming the Sacred"
Mazen Haidar, University La Sapienza, Rome
"Bringing Back Bamiyan's Buddhas"
James Janowski, Hampden-Sydney College
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
COFFEE & TEA BREAK
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| 10:30 - 12:00 |
PAPER SESSION 2
Session 2A (Burgett Pavilion 115)
Environmental Connections: Architectures and Rituals
Moderator: Pat Croskery, Ohio Northern University
"Analysis of US LEED Rating System as Sustainability Guideline to Design an Office
Building in South of Brazil"
Leila Loezer, University of Cincinnati
"Restoration, Connectivity, and Expressivity: An Exploration of Urban Restorative"
Frank Muscara, City University of New York
"Gateway Activities: From Religious Recreation to Rituals of Restoration"
Sam Snyder, University of Florida & Kalamazoo College
Session 2B (Burgett Pavilion 133)
Environmental Epistemologies: Knowing Nature, Knowing Ourselves
Moderator: Rev. Wayne Albertson, Ada United Methodist Church
"Space, Race and Environmental Identity"
Mark Mysak, University of North Texas
"'Who Am I, Who are these People, and What is this Place? A Hermeneutic Account
of the Self, Others, and Environments"
David Utsler, Independent Scholar
"Toward a Poetics of Religious Ecopoetry: Spiritual Référance in the Poetry of Wendell Berry"
Robert Zandstra, Independent Scholar
Session 2C (Burgett Pavilion 134)
Communities and Connections: Case Studies in Restoration and Recreation
Moderator: Verna Ehret, Mercyhurst College
"Kicking Habits: Restoring City, Recreating Faith, Hope and Love"
Alexius Andang Binawan, Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Restoration Restores Education: Using The Campus Watershed to
Integrate Multiple Ways of Knowing"
Cynthia A. Walter, Saint Vincent College
J. Michael Atherton, Seton Hill University
Session 2D (Heterick Library 200)
Conceptual Challenges in Environmental Theologies
Moderator: Tim Van Meter, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
"Concern for 'Creation': A Religious Response to Ecological Conservation"
David McDuffie, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Worshipping the Machine: Technology, Religion, and Nature"
Matt Macioge, Assoc AIA, Principal, Consortium Lumina
"'I Can Only Speak for Myself': The Ethics of Authenticity and 'Recreating' Nature Religion"
Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier University
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| 12:00 - 1:30 |
LUNCH
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| 1:30 - 3:00 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE (Dicke Hall - The Forum)
Introduction: Forrest Clingerman, Ohio Northern University
"Recreating [in] Eden: Ethical Issues in Restoration in Wilderness"
Dan Spencer, The University of Montana
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| 3:00 - 3:30 |
BREAK
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| 3:30 - 5:00 |
PANEL 1 (Dicke Hall - The Forum)
A Terrible and Beautiful Condensation: A Theory of Value and its Implications for
Environmental Thinking and Practice
Moderator:
"Sentimental Environmental: Whither the Irreducibly Problematic?"
Gretel Van Wieren, Yale University
"The Way Down is the Way Up: Frederick Turner's Theory of Value"
William R. Jordan III, Director, the New Academy for Nature and Culture,
Co-director, DePaul University Institute for Nature and Culture.
"Shame, Ritual and Beauty: Technologies of Encountering the Other (A Brief History)"
Todd LeVasseur, The University of Florida
"Response"
Karen Rodriguez, Ecological Protection and Restoration Team Leader, District 5, EPA
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| 5:00 - 5:30 |
BREAK
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| 5:30 - 7:00 |
DINNER
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| 7:00 - 7:30 |
BREAK
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| 7:30 - 9:00 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE (Dicke Hall - The Forum)
Introduction: Dean Lisa Robeson, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio Northern University
"The Earthly Body of the Mind"
David Abram, Director, The Alliance for Wild Ethics
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| 9:00 - 10:00 |
RECEPTION )
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| 6:30 - 8:30 |
BREAKFAST (University Inn - Dining Room)
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| 8:30 - 10:00 |
PAPER SESSION 3
Session 3A (Burgett Pavilion 115)
Practical Ecocriticism: Narrating a Relationship to Place
Moderator: Naoko Sasaki, Ohio Northern University
"'Play the Chinook': Purpose and Place in David James Duncan's The River Why"
Jefferson Slagle, St. Bonaventure University
"Reading the Water' as Re-placement in Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It"
Trevor Thompson, St. Bonaventure University
"'I Was Born on Wheels': Wallace Stegner and Five Ways of Relating to Place in America"
Michael Williams, St. Bonaventure University
Session 3B (Burgett Pavilion 133)
Mystics, Poets and the Spirit in Nature
Moderator: Bill Fuller, Ohio Northern University
"The Universe Alive: Nature in the Mystical Attitude of Sohrab Sepehri"
Sepideh Masoudinejad, Shahid Beheshti University
"Elaborating the World with the World"
Mélanie Walton, Duquesne University
"The Awe Factor: the Role of Experiencing Nature in Crafting Genuine Concern"
Johann Weber, College of Wooster
Session 3C (Burgett Pavilion 134)
Natural Theologies: Emplacing the Divine
Moderator: Ray Person, Ohio Northern University
"God, Grace, and Creation: Contemporary Catholic Contributions to Ecotheology"
Joyce A. Bautch, Marian University
"Re-Placing the Doctrine of the Trinity: Horizons, Violence, and Postmodern
Christian Thought"
Sarah Morice, University of Notre Dame
"Eschatology Of Environmental Bliss In Romans 8: 18-21 and the Imperative of
Present Environmental Sustainability From A Nigerian Perspective"
Sampson Nwaomah, Babcock University
Session 3D (Heterick Library 200)
Other Species: Concepts and Cases in Restoration and Replacement
Moderator: Jay Mager, Ohio Northern University
"A Theoretical Approach to Managing Introduced Species: Thinking About Re-placement"
Chelsea Harry, Duquesne University
"Replacing/Re-placing Animal Rights and Liberation Theories"
Jonathan Parker, University of North Texas
"Knowing Earth: Animist Refigurings of Western Epistemology"
Priscilla Stuckey, Prescott College
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
COFFEE & TEA BREAK BREAK
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| 10:30 - 12:30 |
PAPER SESSION 4
Ethical Landscapes
Moderator: Jeanne Marie Kusina, The University of Toledo
"The Mutual Chanting of Humans and Birds"
A. James Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University
"In the Beginning and in the End"
H. Peter Steeves, DePaul University
"The Legible Landscape and Ethics of Place"
Martin Drenthen, Radboud University of Nijmegen
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| 12:30 - 2:00 |
LUNCH
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| 2:00 - 3:30 |
PANEL 2 (Dicke Hall - The Forum)
Sustainable Lifestyles and Practices
Moderator:
Martin Drenthen, Radboud University of Nijmegen
Paul Thompson, Michigan State University
Adrian Parr, The University of Cincinnati
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