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Invited Keynote Speakers at the Embodiment
and Environment Conference,
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
5-8 July 2005
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Val
Plumwood
Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National
University, Val shares her time between SPT and the Centre for
Resource and Environmental Studies. She has published four books
and over 100 papers, mostly in environmental philosophy. "Shaking
philosophy to its foundations" said one reviewer of Val
Plumwood's 1993 book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (Routledge
1993). Val told an interviewer that she grew up living in and
learning from the Australian bush and reading Alice in Wonderland.
Alice was a good philosophical model because she asked challenging
questions and talked to the flowers. A critic of anthropocentrism
since 1975, Val Plumwood's newest book is Environmental Culture:
the Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge 2002. A recent biographical
essay can be found in 50 Key Thinkers on the Environment edited
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Carol
Christ.
Carol holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author
of the widely reprinted essay "Why Women Need the Goddess,"
which has introduced many to the rebirth of the ancient religion
of the Goddess. She has written five influential books on
women's spirituality and feminist theology: She Who
Changes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Rebirth
of the Goddess (Routledge, 1998), Odyssey
with the Goddess (Continuum, 1995), Laughter
of Aphrodite (Harper, 1987), and Diving Deep
and Surfacing (Beacon, 1980/1986/1995).
With Judith Plaskow she co-edited the classic anthologies,
Weaving the Visions(1989) and Women
Rising (1979/1989), which have changed women's lives
and revolutionized the teaching and study of religion in North
America. Carol has taught at major universities in the United
States, including Columbia University, Harvard Divinity School,
Pomona College, San Jose State, and the California Institute
of Integral Studies. In 1987, experiencing a glass ceiling
in her field and burned out after years of feminist activism,
she resigned a tenured full professorship and moved to Greece,
where she has continued to teach and write, in an ever more
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Beverley
Clack
Beverley Clack is
Reader in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes
University. Her publications include The Philosophy
of Religion: A Critical Introduction, co-authored
with Brian R. Clack, Polity Press, 1998, Sex and
Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality, Polity
Press, 2002, and Feminist Philosophy of Religion:
Critical Readings, co-edited with Pamela Sue Anderson.
Her research interests are in the philosophy of religion,
religion and gender, and humanist approaches to the
study of religion. |
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Graham
Harvey
Graham Harvey is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the
Open University, UK. His research is concerned with
performances and discourses of identities among Jews,
Pagans and indigenous peoples. His publications include
Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary
Paganism (Hurst & NYUP, 1997), Indigenous Religions:
A Companion (London and New York: Cassell, 2000);
Indigenous Religious Musics (edited with Karen
Ralls MacLeod; Ashgate, 2001); Readings in Indigenous
Religions (London: Continuum, 2002), Shamanism:
A Reader (Routledge 2003), Ritual and Religious
Belief (Equinox 2005), and Animism: Respecting
the Living Earth (Hurst & Columbia University
Press 2005). |
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