The Maryville Symposium
2008 Program
“Discerning a Moral Environmental Ethic”
Friday September 26, 2008
- 12:00-2:00
- Registration for guests staying at RT Lodge; room check-in
- 2:00-2:30
- Registration for non-residential guests; Wilson Center for Campus Ministry
- 2:30-300
- Welcomes and Opening Remarks [Wilson Center]
- 3:00-4:00
- “Caring for Nature: From Respect to Reverence”
- Holmes Rolston, III, Distinquished University Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University
- 4:00-4:20
- Coffee Break
- 4:20-5:45
- Comments and Plenary Discussion
- Drew Crain, Associate Professor of Biology, Maryville College
- Brian Austin, Professor of Philosophy, Carson-Newman College
- 6:00-7:00
- Banquet at Proffitt Dining Room
- 7:00-8:30
- Evening Program [Wilson Center]
- “The Greening of a Curriculum”
- Mark O’Gorman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maryville College
- ”The Greening of a Campus“
- John Casey, Professor of Philosophy, Warren Wilson College
- 8:30-9:30
- Reception at Willard House
Saturday September 27, 2008 [Wilson Center]
- 8:30-9:30
- “Shalom and the Character of Earthkeeping”
- Steven Bouma-Prediger, John Jacobson Professor of Religion, Hope College
- 9:30-10:30
- Comments and Plenary Discussion
- Ben Cash, Associate Professor of Biology, Maryville College
- Errol Rohr, Professor of Philosophy and Chaplain, King College
- 10:30-11:00
- Coffee Break
- 11:00-11:45
- Resources in Religious Traditions
- “Catholic Social Teaching and Environmental Justice”
- Cecilia Calvo, Director Environmental Justice Program, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- “Evangelical Christianity and Creation Care”
- Rusty Pritchard, Director, The Evangelical Environmental Network
- 11:45-12:45
- Comment and Plenary Discussion
- Margaret Parks Cowan, Professor of Religion, Maryville College
- 12:45 -1:45
- Lunch at Proffitt Dining Room
- 2:00-3:00
- Wrap-Up Session: “What We’ve Heard”
- Ronald Wells and Thomas Kennedy, Academic Dean, Berry College