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Science with Passion and A Moral Compass 2016
A Symposium in Honor of John Vandermeer
Welcoming remarks, Diarmaid Ó Foighil and Jerry Smith
Panel I: Science, Politics, and Power
Ed Russell – Capitalism, environment, and technology
Doug Boucher –Scientists and theories of progressive change
Helda Morales – Women in science in Latin America: politics, power and the influence of Vandermeer
Joseph Graves – Greater is their Sin: Biological determinism in the age of genomics
John Soluri – Academia’s matrix: Migrations, mutations, and mutts
Panel Discussion:
Short Talks I: A Moral Compass for Science
Phillis Engelbert –Bio 101
Brian Schultz – Teaching sustainable agriculture in a liberal-arts context
Julie Jedlicka – Building conservation efforts within the university: Creating a bird-friendly campus
Margaret Reeves – Science and the farm labor movement
Scott Schneider – The use and limits of science in protecting workers from occupational hazards
Katherine Yih – The New World Agriculture Group in Nicaragua
Panel Discussion:
Panel II: Towards Sustainable and Just Food Systems
Jahi Chappell – The passion and the moral compass: Strange attractors and a phase-space of political ecology
Catherine Badgley – Transforming the food system
Angus Wright – History as a companion plant for agroecology
Peter Rosset – Social movements, agroecology and food Sovereignty
David Alonso – Will dietary shifts solve the current global environmental crisis?
Short Talks II: Science and a Moral Compass for Understanding, Conserving, and Managing Biodiversity
Shalene Jha, Stacy Philpott, Heidi Liere, Brenda Lin – Biodiversity, sustainability, and ecosystem services in urban agricultural landscapes
Bruce Ferguson, Paul Foster and Daniel M. Griffith – The matrix in 4D: The temporal dimension of biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes
Iñigo Granzow de la Cerda – The role of matrix characteristics on beta-diversity of bryophyte and perennial seed-plant metacommunities in arid scrubland fragments
Javier Ruiz – Changes in tropical forest diversity
Krista McGuire – Fungal (not ant) responses to human land use in the tropics
Eduardo Somarriba – Age-yield-planting density relationships in deciding when to rehabilitate or renovate a cocoa/coffee plantation
Panel Discussion:
Short Talks III: Social and Political Perspectives
Patrick Christie – Generating knowledge for action: dilemmas and opportunities
Gerald Urquardt – Ecological, social, and political dynamics along Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast
Susan Wright – Knowledge suppressed/knowledge generated: JV and agbiotech vs agroecology
Naim Edwards – From nature’s matrix to urban agroecologist
Ginger Nickerson – John, the Bluefields group, and participatory action research: Modelling love through action
Luis Garcia Barrios and Juana Cruz Morales – Azteca Chess: An educational tool to explore the emergence of autonomous pest control in Mesoamerican shade coffee
Panel Discussion:
Tribute: Deborah Goldberg – John Vandermeer, the consummate ecologist
Panel III: Theory, Data and More Theory
Mercedes Pascual – Some reflections on critical transitions for John
Luis F. Chaves – The dynamics of latifundia formation
Rob Colwell – Contingency and determinism in biology
Theresa Ong, Doug Jackson, Dave Allen and Senay Yitbarek – An insatiable appetite for curiosity: A celebration of “Outside of the Box” in honor of John Vandermeer
Richard Levins: Video Tribute
Keynote Lecture: John Vandermeer – Science with Passion and a Moral Compass
