Program
Thursday, April 14th
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Keynote Address
"Aesthetic Perception and the Intrinsic Value of Nature"
Sandra Shapshay (CUNY)
Location: Kellen Auditorium Room N101 66 Fifth Avenue
Friday, April 15th
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session I: Graduate Paper Presentations (online)
Emptying the Climate Crisis through Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika | Anish Mishra (Hong Kong University)*
Lewis Mumford: A Science of the Organism | Jacob Tucker (University of Denver)*
Carbon Leviathan: A Planetary Sovereign Governing the Anthropocene | Florian Skelton (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)*
Location: 66 West 12th Street Room A410
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Conference Sustainability Workshop (online)
Philosophers for Sustainability: Good Practices | Kaitlin Louise Pettit (University of Utah)*
Location: 66 West 12th Street Room A410
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Session II: Graduate Paper Presentations
Epistemic Injustice and Native Peoples: An Epistemic Failure | Corinne Persinger (Colorado State University)
Consequences of Panpsychism: Towards Andean Chrono-Political Ecology | José Rafael Luna Valencia (The New School for Social Research)
The Human Development of Nature: A Virtue Theoretical Approach | Kyle Cox (CUNY Graduate Center)
Location: 66 West 12th Street Room A410
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Musical Performances
Collective Sounding | Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Tar Sands Song Book | Tanya Kalmanovitch
Location: 66 West 12th Street Klein Conference Room A510
Saturday, April 16th
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session III: Graduate Paper Presentations (online)
Colonialism, Conservation, and Epistemic Injustice | Alina Anjum Ahmed (University of Georgia)*
Rewilding in a Disenchanted World | Linde De Vroey (Antwerp University) *
"Look at the person who looks at the trees": Subjectivity, Environment and History in Timothy Morton’s Ecology Without Nature | Renzo Nuti (University of Padua)*
Location: 6 E 16th Street, Wolff Room D1103
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
Graduate Project Presentations
Breaking the Stress Bubble | Namita Chandrashekar (Parsons School of Design)
Revealing Stories | Li Xiang, Paula Rodriguez, Yoni Remacka (Parsons School of Design)
Location: 6 E 16th Street, Wolff Room D1103
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Session IV: Graduate Paper Presentations
The Unrest in the Limit: On the Spatial Dialectic of Inside and Outside | Florian Endres (Princeton)
Toward a Social Framework of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature | Timothy Mahoney (CUNY Graduate Center)
Misplaced Objects: Aesthetic Emotions and Photography | Silas van der Swaagh (CUNY Graduate Center)
Location: 6 E 16th Street, Wolff Room D1103
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session V: Graduate Paper Presentations
Getting Out of the Epistemic Way: A modest proposal for eco-emancipation | Danielle Douez (Concordia University)
A Jihad on Climate Change: Mitigation as an Islamic Obligation | Ahmed AboHamad (University of Connecticut)
What Counts in Environmental Activism? A Case in the Colombian Mountains | Isabel Arciniegas Guaneme (The New School for Social Research)
Location: 6 E 16th Street, Wolff Room D1103
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Keynote Address
Emanuele Coccia (EHESS)
"We are all stones Living matter and the reformation of ecology"
Location: 6 E 16th Street, Wolff Room D1103
Sunday, April 17th
Hike in Cold Spring New York
All conference participants and attendees are invited to attend!
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*Asterisk indicates presentation via Zoom
All times listed are eastern standard time
Keynote Speakers
Sandra ShapshaySandra Shapshay is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She works primarily on aesthetics and ethics in the 19th century, with focus on Schopenhauer and Kant, as well as contemporary environmental aesthetics and questions concerning public art. Recent publications include “What is the Monumental?” (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2021), “A Two-Tiered Theory of the Sublime” (British Journal of Aesthetics, 2021), and Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2019). She is currently working on a book project titled Bodies in Stone and Steel: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Monuments.
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Emanuele CocciaEmanuele Coccia is an Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He received his PhD in Philology in Florence after studying in Macerata, Rom and Berlin. After post-Doc positions in Paris and Barcelona he worked as Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy in Freiburg, Germany between 2008 and 2011.
His works focus mainly on the history of religious normativity and on aesthetics. His current research topics focus on the ontological status of images and their normative power, especially in fashion and advertising. Among his publications: La trasparenza delle immagini. Averroè e l’averroismo (Mondadori Bruno, 2005), Sensible Life. A Micro-Ontology of the Image (Fordham University Press, 2016), and Le bien dans les choses (Rivages, 2013). With Giorgio Agamben as a co-editor, he published an anthology on angels in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts: Angeli. Ebraismo Cristianesimo Islam (Neri Pozza, 2009). |
musical performances
Tania KalmanovitchTanya Kalmanovitch is a Canadian violist, ethnomusicologist, and author known for her breadth of inquiry and restless sense of adventure. Her uncommonly diverse interests converge in the fields of improvisation, social entrepreneurship, and social action with projects that explore the provocative cultural geography of locations around the world.
Based in Brooklyn, Kalmanovitch’s layered artistic research practice has rewarded her with extended residencies in India, Ireland, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Siberia. |
Melissa Grey & David MorneauMelissa Grey & David Morneau are composers whose process includes ancient and algorithmic sound practices, structured improvisations, and generative processes.
Melissa Grey & David Morneau are producers of music and events whose focus is collaboration with musicians, designers, and scientists. Collective Sounding invites participants to hum and to move (slowly). Collective Sounding is tuned to the utility hum found in our built environment. |
This conference is made possible with the support of
The New School for Social Research Dean's Office
Philosophy Forum
GFSS
USS
Conference Organizers
Dante Apaestegui, Veronica Dakota Padilla, Eva Perez de Vega, Vidya Ravilochan, Sarah V. Schweig, James Trybendis
Conference Image by
Meryem Es Saoudi & Jasper Anderson
Dante Apaestegui, Veronica Dakota Padilla, Eva Perez de Vega, Vidya Ravilochan, Sarah V. Schweig, James Trybendis
Conference Image by
Meryem Es Saoudi & Jasper Anderson
