Recent Talks by Faculty/Grad Students

• Profs. Robert Frodeman and J. Britt Holbrook each addressed the International Workshop on the "Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity," at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. (9/28 - 9/29)
• Prof. Emeritus Pete A. Y. Gunter spoke at the dedication of the Big Thicket National Preserve Visitors Center: "We Are & Will Be: The History and Future Perspectives for Big Thicket Conservation." (Oct 09)
• Prof. Robert Figueroa gave two talks at Dalhousi University, Halifax, Canada:
  • For the MacKay Lecture Series, Sustainability -- Past, Present, and Future, he delivered his paper “Extending Environmental Justice over the Warming Planet: Climate Refugees, Cultural Sustainability, and Reconciliation." (10/08).
  • And for their Department of Philosophy Speaker’s Colloquium he spoke on “Environmental Identity, Restorative Justice, and Ethical Crisis." (10/09).
    
• Prof. J. Britt Holbrook, Steven Hrotic, and Jonathan Parker presented on “Interdisciplinarity in the Peer Review of Grants” at the 31st Annual Association for Integrative Studies Conference, “Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines,” Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (10/08 - 10/11)
• Prof. Emertius Pete A. Y. Gunter was an honored guest and speaker at the International Symposium to Commemorate the Centennial of Henri Bergson's L'Evolution creatice in Kyoto, Japan (10/20 - 10/24).
• Ph.D. Student Sarah Conrad presented her paper, “Toward a Queer Environmental Justice: Examining the Geography and Theoretical Connections of ‘Gayborhoods’ and Environmental Justice Areas.” at Hypatia's 25th Anniversay Conference: Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures in the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington (10/22 – 10/24).
• Prof. J. Britt Holbrook, Asst. Director of the CSID, went to Cross Timbers Middle School in Grapevine to address the problem of invasive specie with Grapevine-Colleyville ISD gifted and talented middle school students competing in the Future Problem Solving Program (10/27).
• Prof. David Kaplan delivered his talk “Narrative-Deliberative Democracy” at the Society for Ricouer Studies meeting in conjunction with SPEP in Arlington, VA (10/29).
• Profs. Robert Frodeman, J. Britt Holbrook, and Adam Briggle as well as CSID fellow Steven Hrotic all travelled to speak at the Society for Social Studies of Science 2009 Annual meeting in Washington, D.C. (10/28 - 10/31)
• Ph.D. student David Utsler delivered his talk "Coerced Narratives: Narrative Identity and Political Injustice" for the Society for Ricoeur Studies annual conference at George Mason University (10/30 - 10/31).
• Ph.D. students Nathan Bell & David Utsler as well as MA student Tim Christion & MA grad Charlee Tidrick presented talks at the 2009 annual conference of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy meeting in conjunction with SPEP in Arlington, VA. Mr. Grace-Utsler spoke on “Narrative Environmental Identity and Environmental Injustice”; Mr. Bell delivered his talk “A Sand County Self: Eco-Hermeneutics and Leopold’s Environmental Identity”; and Mr. Christion read his paper “Reactionary vs. Responsive Relationships to the Social-ecological World: Identity, Difference, and Relational Metaphors." (10/31 - 11/02).