The Language of Conservation Project
About the Cluster
The Language of Conservation Project was founded in 2014, by Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara, at UC Santa Cruz, as part of the Center for Public Philosophy. The Humanities Institute awarded the LCP with cluster grants in 2018 and 2017 (when the THI was the Institute for Humanities Research). It sponsored two very successful interdisciplinary conferences of the LCP, and several events at UCSC and beyond.
The Language of Conservation Project is now an independent initiative. More information can be found here https://tloc.sites.ucsc.edu/
See also the recent book by co-directors Campagna and Guevara (made possible in part by the early, crucial support of the THI).
UC Santa Cruz Faculty and Student Participants (2017 — 2018)
Daniel Guevara, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy
Claudio Campagna, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;
Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society
T.J. Demos, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture and Director of the Center for
Creative Ecologies
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities
Research
Janette Dinishak, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Jonnathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Public
Philosophy
James Estes, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Member
of the US Academy of Sciences
Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Miriam Greenberg, Professor of Sociology
Sean Hunter, Doctoral Student in Philosophy
Henry Highton, Doctoral Student in Literature
Paul Koch, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Dean of Natural Sciences
Burney Le Boeuf, Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Travis Raymond, Doctoral Student in Philosophy
Kyle Robertson, Assistant Director of the Center for Public Philosophy
Paul Roth, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Laurie Palmer, Professor of Art
Warren Sack, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Beth Shapiro, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Events
May 4, 2018 – The Language of Conservation: In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language”
April 14, 2017 – Ethics and Language of Conservation Colloquium
April 20, 2017 – Humanities Earth Day
April 29, 2017 – Alumni Weekend 2017: Ethics and the Language of Conservation
Videos & Radio
http://www.artistsonart.net/lost-species-goes-extinct/
“What is Lost When a Species Goes Extinct” (2017)
Interview with Claudio Campagna talking about his journey as an animal behaviorist to researching the philosophy of the environmental movement.
“Original Thinkers Series: Legacy of Rachel Carson” (2019)
Fast forward to minute 16:45 for the Language of Conservation presentation.