Environmental Hermeneutics at the NTPA and the AESS

Just this past April the University of North Texas hosted the 43rd annual meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association. I was pleased along with Nathan Bell to present on a panel devoted to environmental hermeneutics. I presented my paper, "Environmental Hermeneutics: New Horizons for Interpretation" followed by Nathan's, "All Such Understanding of Nature: Gadamer and Environmental Hermeneutics." Both papers were well received as evidenced by an enthusiastic Q&A following. to view the conference program, go to http://ntpa.net/.

Environemental hermeneutics will also make a showing at the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences conference, Many Shades of Green, to be held June 17-20 in Portland, Oregon on the campus of Lewis and Clark College. I will be presenting on two panels. The first will be my EH paper I presented at the NTPA. The second is a paper using the narrative theory of Paul Ricoeur and bringing it into dialogue with environmental justice studies. Nathan Bell will also be presenting two papers in the area of environmental hermeneutics. The papers are posted on the conference website, http://www.aess.info/. and can be viewed by clicking on the conference link to the left, then going to "conference schedule" and clicking on the link for the full program. Nathan Bell's papers are on Friday and mine can be found on Saturday.