Adam Wolpa, Image for Peaceable Kingdom: Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation by Matthew C. Halteman, 2008

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 - Haddon Conference Room                                               

8:15-9:00           Check-in and light  breakfast

9:00-9:45           Welcome Session

• A Creaturely Meditation: Beth Johnson, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
• Greetings from the Co-Chairs
• A Word on “Beyond the Bifurcation”: Roland Faber, Executive Co-Director, Center for Process Studies

 9:45-11:00         Session 1

• Daniel A. Dombrowski, From Nonhuman Animals to the Environment
• Rebekah Sinclair, Despicable Hierarchies and Indefensible Limits: Undoing Species In Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism
• Scholar Synthesis by Clinton Combs

11:00-11:30         Break

11:30-12:45         Session 2

• Meijun Fan, Traditional Chinese View of Plants and Its Relevance
• Sandra Lubarsky, A.N. Whitehead and Christopher Alexander on Beauty and Life-sustaining Patterns
• Scholar Synthesis by Brian Orser

12:45-2:15            Lunch

2:15-2:45              Guest Speaker Conversation

• Philip Clayton, Provost, Claremont Lincoln University/Claremont School of Theology  Contemporary Primatology: Leaving Behind Qualitative Distinctions between Humans and Other Animals 

2:45-4:00              Session 3

• Brian Henning, Hierarchy Without Anthoparchy
• Brianne Donaldson, Immortality and Liberation: Conceptual Bridges to Reworlding in Process and Jainism
• Scholar Synthesis by Rob Overy

4:00-4:30              Break

4:30-5:45              Session 4

• George Shields, Does Hartshorne’s Environmental Ethic Allow Deontic Considerations?
• Susan Armstrong,Value-Hierarchy without Oppression: Catalyzing Ideas from Warren, Whitehead, and Derrida
• Scholar Synthesis by Justin Heinzekehr

5:45-7:00              Artist’s Reception and Talk

• Adam Wolpa, Interactive Artist talk

7:00                      Dinner

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 - Haddon Conference Room

8:30-9:00              Breakfast

9:00-10:15            Session 5

• Donald A. Crosby, In Imago Naturae: The Ultimacy of Nature as a Closing of the Gap: A Defense of Radical Immanence
• Jeffery D. Long, Non-Duality, the Bifurcation of Nature, and the Question of Maya: The Integration of Jain, Vedantic, and Process
• Scholar Synthesis by Sheri Kling

10:15-10:45            Break

10:45-11:15            Welcome/Guest Speaker Conversation

• John Cobb, Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology – The Fate of Us Animals on a Dying Planet      

11:15-12:30           Session 6

• Adam Wolpa, Paintings for Cows: Representations of the Real and the Possibility for Forgetting: An Object-oriented Ontology for Art
• Luke B. Higgins, Caring for our Abstractions: Divining Speculative Thought for a Non-Bifurcated Ecology
• Scholar Synthesis by Jon Ivan Gill

12:30-1:00             Walk to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG)

1:00-2:00               Lunch at RSABG

2:00-3:30               RSABG Tour and Gift Shop Stop

3:45-4:00               Walk back to Haddon Conference Room

4:00-4:45               Guest Speaker Conversation

• Zandra Wagoner, University of LaVerne, The Four-Fold Song: Reflections on Constructing a Common World from a Queer, Vegan, Interfaith Chaplain

4:45-5:30              Closing Panel and Remarks

6:00                       Dinner