May 24-25, 2024
Pitzer College, Claremont, California, USA
The 17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and 6th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization are seeking papers related to the following themes and topics. Accepted papers are invited to present in Claremont and be published alongside other conference proceedings.
- Organic Process Thought and Ecological Civilization
- Sustainable Development and Ecological Civilization
- Ecological Civilization and Green Development
- Theoretical Explorations of Ecological Civilization around the World
- Practical Explorations of Ecological Civilization around the World
- Reflecting on Misconceptions of Western Modernization
- Chinese style Modernization and Ecological Civilization
- The “Second Integration” and Ecological Civilization
- Marxism and Ecological Civilization
- The Significance of Constructing Eco-villages for Ecological Civilization
- The Role of Eco-communities in Constructing Ecological Civilization
- Creative Transformation of Traditional Wisdom and Ecological Civilization
- The Role of Science and Technology in Constructing Ecological Civilization
- The Role of AI in Constructing Ecological Civilization
- The Significance of Corporate Ecological Transformation for Ecological Civilization
- The Significance of Organizational Ecological Transformation for Ecological Civilization
- What Kinds of Educational Reforms Does Ecological Civilization Call For?
- What Kinds of Ecological Persons Does Ecological Civilization Need?
- The Role of Youth in Creating Ecological Civilization
- Why Is personal Ecological Awakening Important?
Please submit a 500-word abstract in English outlining your ideas. The deadline for abstract submission is May 10th, 2024. Please email your submissions to Center for Process Studies Program Director, Andrew M. Davis at adavis@ctr4process.org.
Dr. Andrew M. Davis is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of the cosmological wonder. He is program director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, teaches, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning in a hospitable universe, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like because we are a part of it. He is author, editor, and co-editor of ten books including Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy; Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy; and Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology. Follow his work at andrewmdavis.info