Registration
Old Main Lobby
8:30 am

Room 209

Advocacy

Panel– “Disability Studies and Socially Constructed Environments: An Ethical Conversation”

Chair:
Judy Bentley, Department of Foundations and Social Advocacy, SUNY Cortland

Participants:
-Lynn Olcott, Cayuga Correctional Facility

-Frances A. Pizzola, Access to Independence of Cortland County, Inc.

-Robin M. Smith, School of Education, SUNY New Paltz

Theory

“Eco-Justice”

Chair:
Anthony J. Nocella, II., Visiting Scholar, Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice

Participants:
- Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, “Environmental Pollution, Race and Place: Research and Policy Implications,” Geography Department, SUNY Cortland

-Colleen Kattau, “Encuentros Artisticos: Music, Art and Ecojustice in Cajibio, Columbia,” International Communications and Culture, SUNY Cortland

-Veenu Pant, “Water Conflicts: Their Politico-Social and Economic Effects,”
History, S.S. Jain Subodh PG College, Mansarovar, Jaipur
( India)

Practice

Partnership for Onondaga Creek

Chair:
Aggie Lane, Partnership for Onondaga Creek

The Partnership for Onondaga Creek is a community-based organization of individuals and organizations concerned about and willing to take positive action to protect the health of the citizens and water resources within the Onondaga Creek Watershed, Syracuse, New York.

Keynote Speaker
Mezzanine, Third Floor
11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Micere M. Githae Mugo, “Environmental Justice in Education: Latest Academic Catch Terms or Sites of Struggle?”
Dr. Mugo is a poet and playwright, as well as full professor and has taught in the Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University since the fall of 1993. Although a Kenyan by birth and upbringing, she is a citizen of Zimbabwe; a Pan Africanist by identification, an internationalist in orientation and a Black feminist. Please see her website at http://web.syr.edu/~mmmugo

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

Step-It-Up Action!!
Outside in front of Old Main
(rain location—Old Main Lobby)

If you would like to participate in Cortland 's Step-It-Up Action for the National Campaign on Global Warming, please join us! We will take a picture of our action to upload to the Step-It-Up website http://stepitup2007.org

Initiated by Bill McKibben and his students, Step-It-Up 2007 is a campaign organized by people all around the country, calling for leadership on global warming. Its goal is to empower the grassroots climate movement to take action locally by calling for national change. 

Our Step-It-Up event is co-sponsored by Cortland's student environmentalist group SAVE!! http://csave.wordpress.com

Room 230

Advocacy

“Animal Advocacy”

Chair:
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland, Philosophy Department

Participants:
-Karin Howe, “The Ethical Treatment of Animals from a Nonviolent Perspective,” SUNY Cortland Philosophy Major, Class of 2006

-Ramohan Ramanthapillai, “Should dolphins Fight Iraq war? A Gandhian Response,” Philosophy & Peace and Justice, Gettysburg College

-Katina Sayers-Walker, “Ecopedagogy: Renewing Life in the Curriculum,” Childhood/Early Childhood Department, SUNY Cortland

Theory

“Native and Spiritual Concerns”

Chair:
Mecke Nagel, Philosophy Department, SUNY Cortland

Participants:
-Diane R. Swords, “The Power of the Eagle Feather: Shundahai Network, Spirituality and Popular Education,” Social Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

-Robet L. Muhlnickel, “Messianic Consequentialism as a Theory of the Morality of War: a Work in Progress,” Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

-Diane Swords, “Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON),” Syracuse Peace Council

Practice

Center of Environmental Policy & Administration

Chair:
Thomas E. Boudreau, CEPA

The Center of Environmental Policy & Administration CEPA is an interdisciplinary center within Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. CEPA explores environmental issues from an integrated perspective that considers technical, social, and humanistic aspects of environmental matters and prepares leaders who can blend those dimensions as they confront the world’s complex environmental challenges. It brings together faculty and graduate students from a range of Maxwell departments. http://cepa.maxwell.syr.edu/pages/12.html

Break Out Sessions
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

At this time, conference participants will break into small discussion groups to talk about what ideas, issues, themes or strategies they can take away from this conference to impact their own work in their local setting.

The Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS) would like to acknowledge our appreciation for the work of the following artists:

Betty Wood, a member of the Cortland Community for Peace, did the peace panels displayed on the second floor of Old Main: “Cost of War - New York State.” Photos of US military personnel killed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom with acknowledgement of Afghanistan and Iraq casualties reflected in the flags of their respective countries.

Mayuko Miyamoto, a senior student in the Department of Art and Art History, SUNY Cortland, designed the CEPS logo on the front cover.

Norma Gutierrez, a New Media & Graphic Designer who works with Cortland’s International Web Magazine NeoVox, designed the conference poster. She can be reached at IncaChild.Design@gmail.com

Sponsored by: Cortland's Social Philosophy Program, The Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS), CNY Peace Studies Consortium, Campus Artists & Lecture Series, Faculty Development Committee, the Office of Provost Elizabeth Davis-Russell, the Office of President Erik Bitterbaum, Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Prus, & NeoVox.