Many Utahns are unaware of environmental issues that have seemingly no effect on our day-to-day lives. This year the Environmental Ethics Symposium highlights individuals and groups that bring awareness to these unseen challenges. Whether noise pollution or the overlooked impact of low snowpack, these presentations will broaden your knowledge of local issues and inspire you to make some noise.
The symposium is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded via YouTube Live. For more information, contact us at [email protected]
Fulton Library Lecture Hall (FL-120)
9:00 to
9:50 a.m.
FL-120
Lecture
"Utah Lake: Why a Bad Reputation is a Big Concern"
Teri Harmon
Director, Public Outreach, Conserve Utah Valley
10:00 to
10:50 a.m.
FL-120
Keynote Address
"Sound Level Studies and Noise Awareness and Behavioral Responses on the UVU Pedestrian Bridge"
Bonnie Andersen
Professor of Physics, UVU
11:00 to
11:50 a.m.
FL-120
Panel Discussion
"A Pluriversal Future is Possible: Local Environmental Ethics from a Global Indigenous Perspective"
Tecun Hernandez
Assistant Professor of Communication, UofU
"Recovering a Relationship with Yuta"
1:00 to
2:15 p.m.
FL 120
Multi-disciplinary Student Session
Presentations on Eco-Justice
"Reflections: Rediscovering My "Why" Through Environmental Anthropology"
Melanie Carbajal Pelayo
"Environmental Justice Speaks Every Language"
Gabriela Leon
"This is the Place: The Cultural Link to Local Ecology"
Carlee Coles
"What the Water Remembers Being Called: Retranslation as Conservation Practice"
Abigail Brown
Student Poetry
2:30 to
3:45 p.m.
FL-120
Panel Discussion
Making Waves Artist Collaborative
We gather community to create Lake-facing culture through participatory art. We demonstrate love for Great Salt Lake in order to make the movement beautiful and irresistible. Everyone is invited! The life of Great Salt Lake is inseperable from our own. We gather to bear witness. We gather to grieve. We gather to create beacons of possibility. We gather to increase our tenderness towards brine shrimp, microbialities, and winged citizens of the air. We gather to carry each other through spells of despair. We gather to revere all that is vital and alive. Even as the active collapse of our ecosystem challenges our relationship with hope, we devote ourselves to a future shaped by human reverence, humility, reciprocity, and care. Everything we do matters. In the face of crisis, who will we become?
Treats will be served
This symposium is named in honor of our late friend and colleague David R. Keller who served as director fo the Center for the Study of Ethics from 1999-2013
