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Ds Spring 21 Cpp


Concerned Philosophers for Peace:

Peace and Hope in Dark Times

January 29 & 30, 2021


January 29th, 2021


Moral Injury, Violence, and Free Speech


Sanjay Lal, "Broadening the Category of Moral Injury to Better Grasp the Wrong of Violence"

Chair: Andrew Fiala


January 29th, 2021


Environmental Issues


Kelly Coble, "The Ethics of Migration in a Climate Disrupted World"
Chaitanya Motupalli, "Climate Change and Human Security"
Michael Lucas, "Justice in the Ecophenomenological Battle for Cerrito Peak"


Chair: Will Barnes


January 29th, 2021


Graduate Student Panel 1


Victor Abundez-Guerra, "Collective Responsibility with Blame"
Shoshana McClarence, "The Limits of Freedom: Intersectional Constraints Toward a Peaceful Life"
Tony White, "Skepticism of Killing in Self-Defense"


Chair: Fuat Gursozlu


January 29th, 2021


Graduate Student Panel 2


Rachel Dichter, "Social Media in Relation to the Covid-19 Anti-Lockdown Protests: A Threat to Peace and a Source of Hope"
Derick Hughes, "Virtuous Migrants"
Dean Coslovi, "The Gentle Way: The Philosophy of Judo and the Life of Yoshio Senda"


Chair: Casey Rentmeester


January 29th, 2021


Keynote Address


Barry Gan, St. Bonaventure University

"Peace and Hope in Dark Times"
 


Introduction by Greg Moses


January 29th, 2021


January 30th, 2021


Panel on Andrew Fitz-Gibbon's Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working Toward a Better World


Sanjay Lal, Clayton State University
Danielle Poe, University of Dayton
Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland
Bill Gay, UNC Charlotte
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland


Chair: Barry Gan


January 30th, 2021


Acorn Symposium I

Panel: Gandhi's Influence on the Civil Rights Movement


Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy - "Gandhi's Distinct Contribution to Nonviolent Strategy and Tactics, as Enacted by Subsequent Activists"
Greg Moses, Texas State University - "William Stuart Nelson's Kolkata Lectures"
Anthony Neal, Mississippi State University - "Gandhi, Thurman, and the Question of Aim"

 


Chair: Sanjay Lal


January 30th, 2021


Acorn Symposium II

Panel - Author Meets Critics: "A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy After Narco-Culture" by Carlos Alberto Sanchez


Carlos Sanchez, San Jose State University
Manuela Alejandra Gomez, El Paso Community College
Julio Covarrubias, Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges


Chair: José-Antonio Orosco, Oregon State University


January 30th, 2021


Graduate Student Panel 3


Molly Kelly, "Aristotle Revisited: Hybrid Regimes, Nominal Transformation, and the 'Sense' of Injustice"
Rashad Rehman, "Amor est causa pacis: A Pieperian Reading of Aquinas' Theory of Peace"
Tanner Eckstein, "Marxism and Peace"


Chair: Daniele Poe


January 30th, 2021


Concerned Philosophers for Peace Presidential Address


Paula Smithka, University of Southern Mississippi

"Reconstruction 2021: Restoring Health, Truth, and Democracy"


Introduction by Court Lewis


January 30th, 2021