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