E-M:/ Globalization, Environmental Ethics, EJ Conference at MSU 8/24-28

["Dave Dempsey" <davedem@hotmail.com>]

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Enviro-Mich message from "Dave Dempsey" <davedem@hotmail.com>
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As globalization advances and the global character of many environmental 
problems become more manifest, wider perspectives are stimulated in local 
environmental traditions. In North America, a burgeoning environmental 
justice movement makes links between environmental damage, poverty and race 
that strongly recall longstanding political concerns in Europe and the 
South. In Western Europe, scepticism and mistrust of GM and other new deep 
technologies raises questions about the character of ?nature? long discussed 
in relation to the American wilderness tradition. About the globe, 
environmental activists grapple with new problems of human impacts, risk, 
technology, consumption and just distribution, and articulate new visions of 
the future.

This conference aims to bring together a range of disparate voices across 
the globe and the disciplines, broadening these new international 
discussions by bringing distinctly American traditions of environmental 
ethics into dialogue with international concerns in environmental politics, 
philosophy, literature, sociology, history and economics. The conference is 
organized by the Lyman Briggs School of Science, which has long pioneered 
research co-operation right across the disciplines between arts and sciences 
at Michigan State University, the USA?s first land-grant University.

A registration fee of US $70 is required, $50 for graduate students, which 
can be paid by credit card online, by fax or international money order made 
out to Michigan State University.  Registration in the sense of checking in 
will be on the evening of Thursday 24th August, with the first events 
beginning the following morning. Workshops will be held from 25th-27th 
August, with an excursion to a site of interest planned for the morning of 
Monday 28th August.


http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/geeej/



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