This conference sponsored by: The College of Arts and Sciences   The Environmental Studies Program and the Departments of Biology, English, and Philosophy Taking Nature Seriously 1201 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1201 (541)346-5399 (541)346-5096 fax tns@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Conference Panels Complete Session Listing To find a specific author, institution, or title, use the "Find in Page" command on your browser Download Final Program Jump to Session: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Session 1 -- Sunday, 11:00 - 1:00 (Abstracts) 1A. Greening the Humanities: On Paper and In Practice Walnut Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Laird Christensen, Green Mountain College Teaching a Literary Epistemology:  What Can Literature Tell Us About the World Out There? David Thomas Sumner, Weber State University Reading and Writing the Bioregion Laird Christensen, Green Mountain College Science, Story & Philosophies of Perception in the Environmental Studies Classroom Peter Blakemore, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Journey to the Center of the Earth:  Scientific and Aesthetic Experience of Minong David Gilcrest, Carroll College Return to top 1B. Collaboration and Critique -- Inside and Outside the Academy Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall Chair: John Scull, University of Victoria Philosophers with Sound Bites:  Reflections on the Relationship between Professional Philosophy and Environmental Activism Paul Benson, University of Dayton Something's Happenin', Mr. Jones: The Seattle WTO Protests, Environmental Activism, and the Future of Economic "Progress" and Political "Revolution" Max Gulias II, Southwestern Oregon Community College Epistempic Estuaries, Ideological Islands, and Policy Peninsulas:  Can Common Causeways Connect Community Activism and Academic Expertise in Taking Nature Seriously Timothy Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Bridging What? About the Collaboration of Social and Natural Sciences in Environmental Research Chstian Pohl & Michael Guggenheim, Collegium Helveticum Return to top 1C. Technology, Conservation, and the Future of the Forests Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Darcy Davis, American Lands Alliance Geographic Information Technologies, Certainty, and the Natural World: A Call for Uncertain Knowledge Richard Jonasse, University of California, San Diego Darcy Davis, American Lands Alliance Role of Sacred Groves in Biodiversity Conservation - Studies from Maharashtra, India Aparna Watve, Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India A Forest activist asks Forest Scientists, "Where is the social relevance? Where are we heading? Who's leading? Who benefits and Who pays???" Craig Patterson Return to top 1D. Genetic Engineering:  Cultivating Dialogues Library Browsing Room, Knight Library Chair: Ian Duncan, University of Oregon The Relationship between Scientists, "Knowledge Brokers," and Regulatory Politics:  The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Peter Andree, York University Genetic and Economic Reductionism in Global Biotechnology Battles Kathleen McAffee, University of California, Santa Cruz The Cyborg and the Seed: Postmodernism, Ecological Feminism, and Agricultural Biotechnology Lisa Weasel, Portland State University Return to top 1E. Ecological Economics Maple Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Bill Harbaugh, University of Oregon Does Economic Globalization Take Nature Seriously? Peter Carter, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment New Architecture for Ecological Responsibility:  Environmental Citizenship and Environmental Justice in a Market Context Ben Richardson, University of Manchester Post-Developmentalism: The Emerging Counterpoint to Economic Modernization Milton Takei & Stefanie Wickstrom, University of Oregon Return to top 1F. Environmental Ethics:  Enlarging the Conservation Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Barbara Andrew, University of Oregon Culture, Place, Politics: Taking Nature Seriously through Deliberative Dialogue Pat Munday, Montana Tech Getting Closer:  What is the Relationship between Scientific Knowledge and Ethics? Chris Cuomo, University of Cincinnati The Production of Roundup Ready Communities: The Environmental Genome Project as Environmental Justice Policy Giovanna Di Chiro, Allegheny College Return to top Session 2 -- Sunday, 2:15 - 4:10 (Abstracts) 2A. The Rhetoric of Sustainability & Biodiversity Maple Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Jim Crosswhite, University of Oregon The Linguistic Construction of Nature through the Term Biodiversity Catherine Collins & Susan Kephart, Willamette University Discourses of Sustainability and Biodiversity:  Scientific or Social Norms? Scott Denton, University of Arizona Evaluating Sustainability Projects John Baldwin, University of Oregon Brownwash: How the Fraser Institute's Environmental Indicators Report Misrepresents the State of the World Hilda McKenzie and William Rees, University of British Columbia Return to top 2B. Inquiry, Action, and Muddling Through: Multiple Scientist-Community Collaboration at ISIS Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Mike Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute What is Sustainable Development?  Indigenous Aquaculture in Ecuador Jim Oldham, ISIS What is Responsible Physics? Quantum Teleportation & Quantum Cryptography Herbert Bernstein, ISIS What is Responsible Social Studies? Genomics in Iceland Mike Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Discussant: Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Return to top 2C. Teaching Ecological Citizenship Walnut Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: TBA Collaboration as a Path to Multicultural Perspectives on the Environment Steven Gloss & Deborah Mathew, University of Wyoming & Marie Reyes, University of Arizona Informing, Teaching, or Propagandizing?  Environmental & Science Studies for Undergraduates Sean Johnston & Mhairi Harvey, University of Glasgow Return to top 2D. Whales' Tales:  From Eco-Tourism to Environmental Citizenship Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Catriona Sandilands, York University Whalewatching: Political Speech, Political Appearance and Multispecies Citizenship Catriona Sandilands, York University Echolocating an Ethical Way Toward Multi-Species Citizenship Leesa Fawcett, York University Superwhales, Intimates and Spectacle: The Educational Implications of Whalewatching Constance Russell, University of Toronto Return to top 2E. The Rhetoric of Risk Library Browsing Room, Knight Library Chair: Shannon Martin, Temple University Struggling toward Common Ground: Citizens' (Re)Shaping of the U.S. Army's Chemical Weapons Disposal Program Robert Futrell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Radiation, Tobacco, and Illness:  Making Use of Dual Deconstructive Strategies Nelta Edwards, Alaska Pacific University Privileging Process:  Participation as Performance Stephen Healy, University of New South Wales But Who Speaks for the Children?  Scientific Discourse in Environmental Justice Advocacy Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University & Kevin DeLuca, University of Georgia Return to top 2F. Knowing Nature:  Whose Knowledge? Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall Chair: Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury College Why Not Cognodiversity? David Alethea, University of Hawaii, West Oahu Ecological Naturalism, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Politics of Knowledge Lorraine Code, York University Who is Implicated and Where are They Engaged? Re/constructing Social Agency in the Diagramming of Social-Natural Processes Peter Taylor and Chris London, University of Massachusetts Making "Nature" Meaningful for Environmental Scientists Michael Urban, University of Missouri Return to top Session 3 -- Sunday, 4:30 - 6:30 (Abstracts) 3A. Artist as Visionary:  Artist as Environmentalist Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union Chairs: Ruth Wallen & Deborah Kennedy If Frogs Sicken and Die, What Will Happen to the Princes?  A Time for New Stories Ruth Wallen Coming Home to Water Erica Fielder Red Light, Green Light:  Ecoart Signals Community-Based Restoration Susan Leibovitz Steinman Ways of Seeing:  An Ecological Education Patricia Watts Everything Starts with a Thought:  Conceptual Environmental Art Deborah Kennedy Return to top 3B. Cyborg Meditations:  Rethinking Dualisms Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Linda Kintz, University of Oregon Self-Deselection:: Technopsychotic Annihilation via Cyborg Chris Crittenden, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Beholding Nature's Agency:  Imagining a Biology of Subjects Natasha Myers, York University Return to top 3C. From Estuary to Laboratory - and Back? Walnut Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Christopher Preston, University of South Carolina Pure Science in a Polluted Environment Alfred Nordmann, University of South Carolina To Situate or not to Situate: That is the Question for Student Scientists of MARE Douglas F. Williams, Stefka Eddins, and Peter Sederberg, Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina Moving Targets: Evolving Science Studies of an Evolving System S. Armstrong, B. Glett, R.T. Pumphery, L. Wise, M. Clouse, J. Durant, M. Ranhofer, E. Majzlik, T. Jett, and C. Durham, MARE (The Marine and Aquatic Research Experience), University of South Carolina Science as Citizenship:  From Estuary to Policy Christopher Preston, University of South Carolina Return to top 3D. Taking Interdisciplinarity Seriously Library Browsing Room, Knight Library Chair:  Irene Klaver, University of North Texas Richard Grusin, Georgia Institute of Technology Tom Lapoint, University of North Texas Jay Stratton Noller, Oregon State University Irene Klaver, University of North Texas Return to top 3E. Environmental Histories: Morals, Myths, and Burdens Maple Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Madronna Holden, Linfield College The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race?  Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon Country:  The Real Human Rights Deborah Rose, Australian National University The Myth of Wild Nature in Early America Paul Semonin, independent scholar The Eyes of the Earth are Looking at You:  Nature, Culture, and Conscience Madronna Holden, Linfield College Return to top   3F. Community Science:  The Essential Dialogue Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall Chair: Lynne Fessenden, University of Oregon Community Science:  What is Essential about this Strange Dialogue Stuart Lee and Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria Toxics-R-Us:  Tales of Participant Observation with Environmental Activists in a Northwest Community Greg McLauchlan, University of Oregon Conservation Volunteers:  Why We Need Community Science Anna Carr, Australian National University and Laura Stocker, Institute for Science and Technology, Murdoch University Community-Based Health Surveys:  A Challenge to Develop New People-Oriented Health Research Strategies Rudi Nussbaum, Portland State University and Patricia Hoover, Northwest Radiation Health Alliance Session 4 -- Monday, 8:30 - 10:30 (Abstracts) 4A. Forum on Interdisciplinary Environmental Teaching & Learning Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair:  Frieda Knobloch, University of Wyoming Frieda Knobloch, University of Wyoming Gregg Cawley, University of Wyoming Steven Gloss, University of Wyoming Rob Godby, University of Wyoming Return to top 4B. Community Instincts: Public Participation and Public Process Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall Chair: Viviane Simon-Brown, Oregon State University Expert-Led Participation:  Scientific Authority and the (Changing) Meanings of the Public's Role in Environmental Responsibility Gwen Ottinger & Reuben Deumling, University of California, Berkeley It Can Be Done: Fair-Open-Honest Public Process Viviane Simon-Brown, Oregon State University & Tony Faast, US Fish & Wildlife Women's Role in the Ukranian Environmental Movement Valenyna Pidlisnyuk & Tatyana Stefanovska, National University, Ukraine Return to top 4C. Contested Knowledge and Salmon Policy Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Wendy Kotilla, University of Victoria The Genius of This Place: A History of the Natural River Option Vincent Mulier, University of Oregon Remaking Salmon:  Technologies of Space and Place in the Pacific Northwest Barbara Poore, University of Washington Echo of Water against Rocks -- Remembering Celilo Falls Steve Mital & Ian McCluskey, University of Oregon Return to top 4D. Contesting the Binaries of Nature/Culture Walnut Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Maralee Mayberry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Toward a Multicultural Ecology: Taking Ecology through the "Posts" Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Dark Sands or Green Forests?  Legitimating Principlies in the Discourse on Use and Protection of Nature in Iceland in the 1990s Ingolfur Asgeir Johannesson, University of Akureyrl Reasoning with Nature: Toward New Models of Reason and Nature and Their Interrelationship Phyllis Rooney, Oakland University After the End of Nature Steven Vogel, Denison University Return to top 4E. Realizing the Envgaged Institution:  A Research/Faculty Development Project for Building a New Theory and Practice of Public Scholarship in Land-Grant Education Maple Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair:  Nicholas Jordan, University of Minnesota Scott Peters, Cornell University Nicholas Jordan, University of Minnesota Margaret Adamek, University of Minnesota Peg Michels, Civic Organizing, Inc. Return to top 4F. Fundamental Justice:  Equity & the Environment Library Browsing Room, Knight Library Chair: Robin Morris Collin, University of Oregon Alternative Research Methods for Natural Resources Policy Research JD Wulfhorst & Julia Dawn Parker, University of Idaho and Chip Ward, West Desert HEAL Community Based Environmental Research Julie Sze, New York University Environmental Justice:  An Ecofeminist Approach Karen Warren, Macalester College Some Live More Downstream than Others: Cancer and Environmental Injustice Jim Tarter, University of Oregon Return to top Session 5 -- Monday, 2:30 - 4:30 (Abstracts) 5A. Citizen Expertists on the Farm, in the Field Ben Linder Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Laura Morrison, Oregon State University Differing Views and Similar Perceptions:  Enhancing Knowledge Exchange between Farmers, Soil Protection Agencies, and Researchers Patricia Fry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Science and Citizen Task Forces in Farmland Preservation Katrina Korfmacher, Rochester Institute of Technology and Tomas Koontz, Ohio State University Return to top 5B. Theatre for Environmental Awareness: a Participatory Workshop Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall Richard Gale, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University Leslie Bentley, New Mexico Tech Our goals for this interactive, issue-based movement workshop are to use theatrical techniques to engage participants in a critical dialogue around the concerns faced by scientists and activists as they work to build bridges between and among their respective needs and interests Return to top 5C. Expanding the Focus:  Health in the Public's Interest Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Sheryl Thornburn Bird, University of Oregon Toxic Risk and Environmental Justice:  Reevaluating Evidentiary Norms Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University Bringing Environment and Society into Epidemiology:  A Multilevel Analysis of Low Birth Weight Births in Missouri Philip Howard, University of Missouri Re-orienting Reproductive Biology from a People's Science Perspective Swatija Manorama, Vacha Women's Resource Center, Mumbai, India Return to top 5D. Nature/Culture Interactions:  Dismantling the Realism/Social Constructivism Divide Walnut Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Sharyn Clough, Rowan University Beyond Constructivism -- Biological Technoscience Catharina Landstrom, University of Western Sydney Terminators or Traitors?  Agency, Biotechnology, and the Future of Farming Dawn Coppin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Bt, Beta Carotene, and the Big MACCs: Commodificatiion and the Destruction of Efficacy Shepherd Ogden, The Cook's Garden Return to top 5E. Perceptions of Risk:  Citizens versus Scientists Maple Room, Erb Memorial Union Chair: Gaylen Martin, University of Oregon