Moved Online Due to Weather

Keynote Speaker Catherine Keller Moved to 5pm 02/18 via Zoom

University of Central Arkansas, Schichtl Hall 115
Conway, Arkansas
February 17-18, 2025

Global warming is a planetary crisis, and we need practical and theoretical resources from across the world to help us address it. Our ecological crisis is also an energy crisis, because the extraction and burning of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide and other emissions that drive global warming. We need new ways to think about energy exchange, energy conservation, and alternative forms of energy. This conference will offer new concepts and tools to help educate ourselves and others about the role of energy exchange in the Anthropocene to help us grapple with climate change.

This conference will bring together scholars and educators from Arkansas, the broader United States, Korea, and scholars from the Chinese speaking world to explore timely and urgent concerns regarding the theoretical and practical challenges of energy in ecological and environmental contexts. Ecology and Energy Exchange East and West will include opportunities for educators to develop content expertise and pedagogical tools for addressing these issues in K-12 and higher education classrooms, lectures from world-renowned scholars to inform the scholarship of students and researchers, and exchange opportunities for local and international scholars to share, collaborate, and network.

Sponsors

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, UCA
https://uca.edu/philosophy/

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UCA
https://uca.edu/cahss/

Center for Global Learning and Engagement, UCA
https://uca.edu/global/

Asian Studies Program, UCA
https://uca.edu/history/programs/asian-studies/

Schedler Honors College, UCA
https://uca.edu/honors/

Center for Chinese Language and Culture, UCA
https://uca.edu/cclc/

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)
https://www.arncta.com/

Asian Studies Development Program Regional Centers
https://www.eastwestcenter.org/professional-development/asian-studies-development-program

East-West Center, Honolulu, HI

Institute for Climate Humanities, Wonkwang University, South Korea

National Research Foundation of Korea
https://www.nrf.re.kr/eng/main

This Conference is Partly Supported by a Research Project funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea entitled “Energy Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Explorations on Energy, Transformation of Ki (氣), and De-composition.”