2005 CONFERENCE THEME:
Catholic Social
Teaching
and Ecology
November 9-11,
2005
Confirmed Speakers
Robert Costanza
Gund Professor of Ecological
Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics,
University of Vermont.
He is author of Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of
Sustainability.
Walter Grazer
Policy Advisor in the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops’ Office of International Justice and Peace and
Director of the Bishops’ environmental justice program.
Miriam MacGillis, O.P.
Co-founder of Genesis Farms.
The farm practices biodynamic methods
of agriculture which are in tune with the natural rhythms of the earth.
Presently, more than 200 families from the region are shareholders in
its economic support.
Mark
Sagoff
Senior Research Scholar at the
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.
He is a Pew Scholar in Conservation
and the Environment, and President of the International Society of
Environmental Ethics. Author of The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy,
Law and the Environment.
Lucia Ann Silecchia
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
Catholic University of America.
She has published articles in the
areas of environmental law and Catholic social thought. She has also
advised the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace and the
Environmental Justice Project of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
Bishop Walter F. Sullivan
Bishop Emeritus of Richmond,
Virginia.
Bishop Sullivan serves on the board of the Catholic Committee of
Appalachia.
Mary
Evelyn Tucker
Professor of Religion at Bucknell
University
Coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. She is editor of
Hinduism and Ecology; Confucianism and Ecology: the Interrealtion of
Heaven Earth and Humans; Worldviews and Ecology.
Mark
Wallace
Professor of Religion at Swarthmore
College
He is author of Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity,
Nature, Spirit; Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence,
and the Renewal of Creation.
Jace
Weaver
Professor of Religion, University of
Georgia.
He is author of Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives
on Environmental Justice; Other Words: American Indian Essays on
Literature, Law and Culture.
If you would like to
contribute a paper on this topic to the conference or the Journal of
Catholic Social Thought, please see:
http://www3.villanova.edu/mission/journal/calls/2005.htm
