Yale University
GCRE: Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology
April 18th – 20th 2018
LOCATION | Yale Divinity School + Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Wednesday April 18, 2018
5:00 – 6:00 PM Registration and Welcome Reception
Kroon Hall, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
6:00 – 7:30 PM Keynote Speaker: Rev. Nancy Wright
Kroon Hall, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Thursday April 19, 2018
8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM Welcome Remarks from YDS and FES Deans
9:00 – 10:15 AM Panel 1: Ecofeminism & Ecowomanism
Reclaiming Water Epistemologies for All of Creation: A Womanist Perspective | Candace M. Laughinghouse, Chicago Theological Seminary
Rites and Rights of Women and Water: Healing Environmental and Sexual Trauma with the Wisdom of Women’s Early Religion and Culture | Isabel Maria Mareș, Union Theological Seminary
Liquidity of Plasticity: A Movement Prayer | Khokhoi (Kk de La Vida), The New School of Public Engagement
10:30 – 11:30 AM Chapel and Coffee Hour
11:30 -12:15 PM Panel 2: Pollution, Waste, Drought, and Debris
Pollution and Sin in the Athens Riviera | Joy Charikleia Maidou, Boston University
An Arid, Flooded Land: Land Ethics and Natural Law | Carl Friesen, University of Notre Dame
Filling the Ark: Cross-species Stewardship in an Age of Surplus | Rachel Levine, University of Toronto
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch
2:00 – 3:15 PM Panel 3: Art, Literature, and Poetry
Living in Antediluvian Times: Reading Victorian Climate Fiction | Eva-Charlotta Mebius, Yale University / UCL English Department
Murky | Jennifer Maidrand, Drew University
3:30 – 4:30 PM Workshop with Rev. Nancy Wright and Rev. Stephanie Johnson on environmental activism in the church
4:30 – 5:15 PM Panel 4: Political Ecology and Spiritual Resistance
Solidarity with Water: Sovereignty of Earth at Standing Rock | abby mohaupt, Drew Theological School GDR
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change Denial | Kate Lootens, Florida State University
To Kill a God: The Sociology of Spiritual Decline and River Degradation in Four Case Studies, Margaux Crider, Centre College
Tunneling Deeper into Trouble: Rethinking Water Rights in California’s Central Valley | Sara Bernard-Hoverstad, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
5:15 – 6:30 PM Dinner
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
6:30 – 8:00 PM Film Screening of Journey of the Universe, with Professors Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim
Kroon Hall, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
8:00 – 10:00 PM GPSCY Graduate & Professional Student Center at Yale, Pub Lounge
Free Miller High Life, No Cover, and $2 drinks!
Friday April 20, 2018
8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 AM Panel 5: Sacred Traditions & Rituals
Handwashing: Sacramental Exchange and Normative Occasion | Kieran L. Campbell, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
Splitting Water with Wood | Matthew D. Smith, University of Colorado-Boulder
Water across the Abrahamic Traditions | Michelle E. Lewis, Emory University
10:30 – 11:30 AM Chapel with Rev. Steve Blackmer & Coffee Hour
11:30 – 12:15 PM Panel 6: Eastern Perspectives
An Ecology of Mind: A Daoist Stream of Taiji (太極) in Dynamic-Recursive Consciousness | Bryce Detweiler, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Memorializing the Water and Mountain Deities: Effects of the Reconstruction of Ritual Space in Contemporary Rural Japan | Carolyn Pang, Columbia University
Beyond Water: An Ecofeminist View of Wind/Water and Dao | Liz Scianna, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch
2:00 – 3:15 PM Panel 7: Redefining Ethics
The Ideal Millennial Water Ethic | Genevieve Schmidt, Oakland University
Fluid Ethics: Water as Source and Symbol for Ethical Reimagination | O’Neil Van Horn,Drew University
Pleasing to the Eye and Good for Food | Grady Zuiderveen, Pennsylvania State University
Respecting “the Other” Through Widening the Concept of “Alive”: Reading Ibn Arabi’s Concept of “Aliveness” as a Solution of the Environmental Problems | Cennet Cavus, Marmara University/ Institute of Social Sciences
3:30 – 4:30 PM Workshop with Rev. Steve Blackmer
4:30 – 5:15 PM Panel 8: Ted Talk
Planetary Health: Break the Silos | Elsie Moore & Rose Sulentic, Yale School of Public Health
5:30 – 7:00 PM Yale Divinity Farm – Fireside snacks and refreshments