GRÉEA’s Winter & Summer 2021 program is out! (updated version)

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(update, 22.01.2021)

NB: All activities will be organized online unless otherwise specified (time zone: EST/EDT)

Virtual talks

Registration: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca

Winter 2021

February 3, @12:00 – 13:30 – Lancement de La Pensée végane. 50 regards sur la condition animale (information)

March 17, @14:00 – 16:00 – Ben Dixon, Stephen F. Austin State University, « Toward a New Understanding of Leopold’s Land Ethic » (abstract) (new date)

March 31, @12:30 – 14:30 – Jan Dutkiewicz (Concordia University) & Anne Barnhill (Johns Hopkins University), « Peak Anthropocene: Cellular Agriculture and the Politics of Disruptive Harm Reduction » (abstract)

April 27, @14:00 – 16:00 – Simona Capisani, Harvard University, « The Right to a Livable Locality and Climate Displacement in the Territorial State System » (abstract)

Summer 2021

June 1, @12:00 – 14:00 – Julie Jebeile, Université de Berne, « Feminist Perspectives on Philosophy of Climate science » (abstract)

June 17, @09:00 – 17:00 – Journée d’études en philosophie de l’écologie, organisée par Anne-Marie Boisvert, Sophie Bretagnolle, Antoine C. Dussault (on campus or online | en personne ou en ligne) (information)

July 6, @12:00 – 14:00 – Round-table « Animal Rights & the Concept of Dignity », with Rainer Ebert (CRÉ, GRÉEA), Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University) & Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University) (on campus or online | en personne ou en ligne) (information)

Reading groups

A. Texts in environmentale & animal ethics

Organized by Juliette Roussin (Université Laval) & François Jaquet (CRÉ). Registration: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca

The reading group will be held from 14:00 to 15:30

February 9 – Reading of Ty Raterman, « Bearing the weight of the world: on the extent of an individual’s environmental Responsibility », Environmental Values, 21 (4), 2012.

March 9 – Reading of Kristin Andrews, « Naïve Normativity: The Social Foundation of Moral Cognition », Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020.

April 6 – Reading of Sharon R. Krause, « Environmental Domination », Political Theory, 2019.

May 18 – Reading of Val Plumwood, « Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism », Hypathia, 6(1), 1991 ; Robert Sessions, « Deep Ecology versus Ecofeminism: Healthy Differences or Incompatible Philosophies? », Hypathia, 6(1), 1991.

June 15 – Lorraine Code, Ecological thinking: The politics of epistemic location, chap. à définir, Oxford University Press, 2006.

B. Philosophie de l’écologie : « La nature des communautés et des écosystèmes – Enjeux métaphysiques »

Organized by Anne-Marie Boisvert, UQÀM ; Antoine C. Dussault, Collège Lionel-Groulx, CIRST ; Véronica Ponce, Marianopolis College. Registration: boisvert.anne-marie@uqam.ca

The reading group will be held from 19:30 to 21:30

January 26 – Bilan de la session d’automne.
Suggested reading: Kim Sterelny. “Local Ecological Communities”. Philosophy of Science. 2006

More information to come