EXTENDED DEADLINE - SICILY SUMMER SCHOOL IN ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
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From: Andrea Le Moli <andrea...@UNIPA.IT>
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Sicily Summer School in Environmental Humanities
2022 Edition on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Global Climate Change
Fontane Bianche (Siracusa) – 21-24 May 2022
Convenors: Andrea Le Moli, Marcello Di Paola (University of Palermo, Department of Humanities)
Climate change and the associated planetary ecological transformations that are currently underway put pressure not only on our institutions, economic systems, and lifestyles, but also on our conceptual toolkits and evaluation criteria. In the past twenty years, environmental ethics and aesthetics have confronted the peculiar features, intricacies, and axiological and normative complexities of climate change, unveiling a phenomenon that seems to challenge the very limits of our thinking and philosophical imagination.
What began as a pioneering interest of a few is now at the centre of an urgent debate of global relevance and scope, involving nations as well as generations in a painstaking process of collective re-thinking whose mechanisms are anything but smooth and outcomes are very uncertain.
With the thematic edition Ethics and Aesthetics of Global Climate Change, the Sicily Summer School in Environmental Humanities wants to take stock of such intellectual process and individuate possible directions for its unfolding evolution. To that end, it will rely on the contribution of two of the founders of environmental ethics and aesthetics, reflecting on the outcomes of their research to date and their views on future trajectories.
The Summer School is organized by the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo, as part of the 2014-2020 PON Green Project “Consolidating Development: Concepts and Applications of a Philosophy of Plant Life”. It will take place at the Garden of Mother Plants at Vivai Cuba, a cactus nursery in Fontane Bianche, Siracusa, Italy (www.vivaicuba.com). The School is aimed at students and scholars at all levels who are interested in environmental philosophy and in sharing an opportunity for close dialogue with leading experts in the field, in a unique Mediterranean setting.
The meetings will include:
1. Morning plenary sessions, with presentations from keynote speakers and a dialogue initiated and led by discussants from the University of Palermo
2. Afternoon talks based on abstracts submitted by participants and selected by convenors.
3. Daily excursions to some of the most important historical-naturalistic sites in south-eastern Sicily (Cavagrande del Cassibile and locations in the Val di Noto)
4. Social lunches and dinners by the sea, in Fontane Bianche as well as Ortigia, the historical centre of the city of Siracusa.
5. Overnight stays and breakfasts at the Agriturismo Pozzo di Mazza (http://www.pozzodimazza.com), a 19th century rural house sitting amongst citrus groves, with a swimming pool and a restaurant serving typical local cuisine.
Papers developing the abstracts selected to initiate the afternoon talks will be published, together with keynote presentations and protocols of discussions, in a volume edited for the new international series Environmental Philosophies at Palermo University Press.
The Summer School is open to a maximum of 25 participants. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2022.
Keynote Speaker Ethics:
Dale W. Jamieson
Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Affiliated Professor of Law, Medical Ethics, and Bioethics
Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
New York University
https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/dale-jamieson.html
Discussant:
Alice Pugliese
Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy
Department of Humanities
University of Palermo
Keynote Speaker Aesthetics
Emily Brady
Professor of Philosophy
Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director and Chair
College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/philosophy/profile/emily-brady
Discussant:
Elisabetta Di Stefano
Associate Professor of Aesthetics
Department of Humanities
University of Palermo
For information and registration, please contact:
Andrea Le Moli
Full Professor in the History of Philosophy
Department of Humanities
University of Palermo
(andrea...@unipa.it)
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Sicily Summer School in Environmental Humanities
2022 Edition on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Global Climate Change
Fontane Bianche (Siracusa) – 21-24 May 2022
Convenors: Andrea Le Moli, Marcello Di Paola (University of Palermo, Department of Humanities)
Climate change and the associated planetary ecological transformations that are currently underway put pressure not only on our institutions, economic systems, and lifestyles, but also on our conceptual toolkits and evaluation criteria. In the past twenty years, environmental ethics and aesthetics have confronted the peculiar features, intricacies, and axiological and normative complexities of climate change, unveiling a phenomenon that seems to challenge the very limits of our thinking and philosophical imagination.
What began as a pioneering interest of a few is now at the centre of an urgent debate of global relevance and scope, involving nations as well as generations in a painstaking process of collective re-thinking whose mechanisms are anything but smooth and outcomes are very uncertain.
With the thematic edition Ethics and Aesthetics of Global Climate Change, the Sicily Summer School in Environmental Humanities wants to take stock of such intellectual process and individuate possible directions for its unfolding evolution. To that end, it will rely on the contribution of two of the founders of environmental ethics and aesthetics, reflecting on the outcomes of their research to date and their views on future trajectories.
The Summer School is organized by the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo, as part of the 2014-2020 PON Green Project “Consolidating Development: Concepts and Applications of a Philosophy of Plant Life”. It will take place at the Garden of Mother Plants at Vivai Cuba, a cactus nursery in Fontane Bianche, Siracusa, Italy (www.vivaicuba.com). The School is aimed at students and scholars at all levels who are interested in environmental philosophy and in sharing an opportunity for close dialogue with leading experts in the field, in a unique Mediterranean setting.
The meetings will include:
1. Morning plenary sessions, with presentations from keynote speakers and a dialogue initiated and led by discussants from the University of Palermo
2. Afternoon talks based on abstracts submitted by participants and selected by convenors.
3. Daily excursions to some of the most important historical-naturalistic sites in south-eastern Sicily (Cavagrande del Cassibile and locations in the Val di Noto)
4. Social lunches and dinners by the sea, in Fontane Bianche as well as Ortigia, the historical centre of the city of Siracusa.
5. Overnight stays and breakfasts at the Agriturismo Pozzo di Mazza (http://www.pozzodimazza.com), a 19th century rural house sitting amongst citrus groves, with a swimming pool and a restaurant serving typical local cuisine.
Papers developing the abstracts selected to initiate the afternoon talks will be published, together with keynote presentations and protocols of discussions, in a volume edited for the new international series Environmental Philosophies at Palermo University Press.
The Summer School is open to a maximum of 25 participants. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2022.
Keynote Speaker Ethics:
Dale W. Jamieson
Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Affiliated Professor of Law, Medical Ethics, and Bioethics
Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
New York University
https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/dale-jamieson.html
Discussant:
Alice Pugliese
Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy
Department of Humanities
University of Palermo
Keynote Speaker Aesthetics
Emily Brady
Professor of Philosophy
Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director and Chair
College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/philosophy/profile/emily-brady
Discussant:
Elisabetta Di Stefano
Associate Professor of Aesthetics
Department of Humanities
University of Palermo
For information and registration, please contact:
Andrea Le Moli
Full Professor in the History of Philosophy
Department of Humanities
University of Palermo
(andrea...@unipa.it)
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