5-0770 NATURE AND ETHICS ACROSS GEOGRAPHICAL, DISCURSIVE AND HUMAN BORDERS

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges

Organizers: Katharine Dow (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH) and Victoria Jane Boydell (Independent Scholar)

Chairs: Michal Nahman (University of the West of England)

Discussants: Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge)

13:45

“You Can't Change Our Ancestors without Our Permission" - Ethics of Genetically Engineering Taro In Hawaii

Mascha Gugganig (University of British Columbia)

14:00

Affect From a Blossom: Art, Ethics and Nature

Liliana Gil Sousa (CRIA, University of Coimbra)

14:15

Plants, Prostitutes, and Pharmaceuticals Along the Inter-Oceanic Road: Spoils of a Taxonomic Narrative

Ruth E Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley)

14:30

Fighting with Fruits: Nature, Ideology and Moral Life Among Naturopaths In South India

Eva Jansen (University of Munich)

14:45

Full-Term Breastfeeding: Nature, Morality and Feminism In London and Paris

Charlotte R Faircloth (University of Kent)

15:00

Lending An Ear, Bending Gender: Making the Environmental Resonate with the Moral In a Toxic China

Janelle D Lamoreaux (University of California, Berkeley)

15:15

The “nature” of Epidemics In China From Plague to Sars: a Historical Anthropology of Enmity

Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews )

15:30

Break

15:45

Ordered Cetacea: Anthropomorphism, Indigeneity, and Whaling

Jesse Bia (University of Oxford )

16:00

Following nature: ethnographies of ethical naturalism in behavioural biology

Matei Candea (Durham University)

16:15

Fluencies Across the Great Divide: Speaking Rat, Good Science and the Grip of Instrumental Reason In the Lab

Simone Jane Dennis (Australian National University )

16:30

Moral Reasoning In Contemporary 'ecological' Art

Jennifer Clarke (University of Aberdeen)

16:45

Impossible Allies: The Ethics of Animal Protection and Nature Conservation In Scotland

Adam D Reed (University of St Andrews)

17:00

Multi-Species Political Ecology: An Ethics of Human and Nonhuman Nature

Laura A Ogden (Florida International University)

17:15

Discussant

Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge)

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