Conference
Keynote Speakers and Panelists






Dr. David Abram
Director, The Alliance For Wild Ethics
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (1996)
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (forthcoming from Pantheon in 2010)



Dr. Anna L. Peterson
Professor, Department of Religion
University of Florida
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador’s Civil War (1997)
Christianity, Globalization, and Social Change in the Americas (2001)
Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (2001)
he Education of Desire: Everyday Ethics and Social Change (2009)




Dr. Dan Spencer
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program
University of Montana
Gay and Gaia: Ethics, Ecology and the Erotic (1996)
Ecological Location: Reintegrating the Social and Ecological into an Ethics of Place (In process)




Dr. Martin Drenthen
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy and Science Studies at the Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computing Science
Radboud University of Nijmegen
Bordering Wildness. The Desire for Wilderness and the Meaning of Nietzsche's Critique of Morality for Environmental Ethics (2003)




Dr. William Jordan III
Director, The New Academy for Nature and Culture
Co-Director, DePaul University Institute for Nature and Culture
The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature (2003)




Dr. Paul B. Thompson
Professorof Philosophy
W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics
Michigan State University
The Ethics of Aid and Trade: US Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract (1992)
The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics (1994)
Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective (2007)




Dr. Adrian Parr
Visiting Associate Professor
College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
University of Cincinnati
The Deleuze Dictionary (2005)
Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory, and the Politics of Trauma (2008)
Hijacking Sustainability (March 2009)