An interdisciplinary seminar investigating human perceptions of nature and environmental change
January 25-26th 2008
Estonians National Museum, Exhibition hall
J. Kuperjanovi 9, Tartu - Estonia
Symposium language: English
Friday, January 25th
| 09:15 |
Opening words by Margit Sutrop (University of Tartu, Head of the Institute for Philosophy and Semiotics) and Riin Magnus (ENS Jakob von Uexküll Centre, chairman) |
09:30 - 11:30 |
Session 1: Searching for our selves in nature |
| 09:30 |
Keynote speaker: Ville Lähde ( University of Tampere)
Nature in our midst |
| 10:30 |
Morten Tønnessen (University of Tartu)
Environmental problems in light of Gabriel Marcel`s distinction problem/mystery |
| 11:00 |
Otto Lehto (University of Helsinki)
An anarcho-tragic defence of enlightenment (Western and Eastern) |
11:30 - 12:00
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Coffee break
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12:00 - 13:30 |
Session 2: Eco-talk: The power in storytelling |
| 12:00 |
Keynote speaker: Nils Lindahl Elliot (Centre for Media, Culture and Environmental Education, Bristol)
The wild (and not so wild) lives of television |
| 13:00 |
Toomas Trapido (MP, Green Party)
Citizen movement as the immune system of the Earth? - On Paul Hawken's new book Blessed Unrest |
13:30 - 15:30 |
Lunch |
15:30 - 17:30 |
Session 3: Environmental - or simply mental? The psychology of the environmental crisis |
| 15:30 |
Keynote speaker Alan Costall (University of Portsmouth)
Being part of nature: The principle of animal-environment mutuality |
| 16:30 |
Ann Ojala (University of Helsinki)
Emotional connectedness to nature: Does it affect environmental friendliness? |
| 17:00 |
Hannes Palang (Tallinn University)
Creating suburban nature |
19:00 |
Reception |
Saturday, January 26th
| 10:15-12:30 |
Session 4: Enacting knowledge: Scientific vision and environmental practice |
| 10:15 |
Keynote speaker Kurt Jax ( Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research/Technical University of Munich)
An ecosystem is not an ecosystem: Translating between scientific vision and environmentalist practice |
| 11:15 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 |
Aleksei Lotman (MP, Green Party)
Protecting wild and not so wild nature - science and practice |
| 12:00 |
Riste Keskpaik (University of Tartu/Estonian Univeristy of Life Sciences)
Implicit politics in environmentalist language |
| 12:30 |
Concluding talk by Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu)
Semicultural nature |
13:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
14:30 - 16:30 |
Roundtable: all speakers
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Closing words by Morten Tønnessen |
