Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series 

Ecofeminism:

The New International Women’s (Rights) Movement

Presented by

Professor Karen J. Warren

Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 12:00 P.M.

at Briggs and Morgan, PA, 2200 IDS Center, in Minneapolis

(lunch will be served)

Karen J. Warren is Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her scholarly interests in environmental ethics and feminism began in the early 1970's, before there were fields of philosophy known as "environmental ethics" or feminist philosophy.  She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the legal viability of providing legal rights to nonhuman natural objects (e.g., trees, rivers, ecosystems). Since then, Warren has gone on to earn an international reputation as a pioneer in ecological (or, “eco”) feminist philosophy.   She has edited or co-edited five books, published a single-authored book, Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters, and currently is completing an anthology entitled Gendering Western Philosophy: Men and Women Philosophers from the 5th Century B.C.E. to the Present--the first textbook in any language to include women philosophers alongside men philosophers, with commentaries by contemporary scholars for each "pair" of philosophers. She has published over 50 refereed or invited articles, and given more than 225 presentations at regional, national, and international venues.  She was recently named an Oxford Fellow at Oxford University (2003) and occupant of the Woman’s Chair in Humanistic Studies at Marquette University (2004).

This is one in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women’s human rights issues.  Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation.  For more information, please contact Mary Hunt at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Please R.S.V.P. to Mary Hunt at Minnesota Advocates for

 Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, July 8th

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107  Email: mhunt@mnadvocates.org