Thursday, June 5, 2025

8:30-9:00 AM

Check-in (Hahn 101)

9:00-9:30 AM

Opening Ceremony

Location: Hahn 101

Marc Los Huertos (Pomona College)
Sharon Snowiss (Pitzer College)

Ying Xue (Xinhua Institute)
Meijun Fan (Institute for Postmodern Development of China)

Andrew Schwartz (Center for Process Studies)

9:30-10:30 AM

Plenary Session

Envisioning an Ecological Civilization in Theory and Practice
Speaker: Jeremy Lent
Location:  Hahn 101

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

10:30-10:45 AM

Group Photo & Break

10:45-12:15 PM

Breakout Session 1

Is It Too Late?
Session Chair: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Location: Hahn 108
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859

10:45-11:05 AM

Speaker 1: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Topic: It Is Too Late: How to Adapt to a 3 Degree Hotter World

11:05-11:25 AM

Speaker 2: Jay Jones
Topic: Too Late for Whom?

11:25-11:45 AM

Speaker 3: Ryan Carolan
Topic: How to Turn a Civilization? Reorienting Social Institutions through the Ethics of Eco-Poiesis

11:45-12:15 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:45-12:15 PM

Breakout Session 2

Time, Process, and Planetary Transformation
Session Chair: Jared Morningstar
Location: Carnegie 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85016122350 

10:45-11:05 AM

Speaker 1: Bhavana Nissima (online)
Topic: Timing Ecology: An Exploration of Time in the Development and Maintenance of Ecological Awareness in South Asian Faith-Culture Practices

11:05-11:25 AM

Speaker 2: Kazi Shakti
Topic: Process Buddhism for the Age of the Planetary Polycrisis

11:25-11:45 AM

Speaker 3: Spencer Ward
Topic: Reverse-Engineering Hope: Concretely Analyzing What Will Have Had to Have Happened

11:45-12:15 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:45-12:15 PM

Breakout Session 3

Religious Perspectives on Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Andrew M. Davis
Location: Carnegie 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88422160074 

10:45-11:05 AM

Speaker 1: Jesse Peterson
Topic: The Book of Job and the Ecological Crisis: An “Anthroperipheral” Vision

11:05-11:25 AM

Speaker 2: Hubert Meisinger (online)
Topic: Sustainability, Climate Change and the Integrity of Creation: A New Testament Approach

11:25-11:45 AM

Speaker 3: Shang Wang
Topic: Encountering the Dao with Gaia: A Preliminary Exploration of New Perspectives on Contemporary Ecological Civilization Dilemmas

11:45-12:15 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:45-12:15 PM

Breakout Session 4

Rethinking Earth: Toward a Living Planet Future
Session Chair: Zhihe Wang
Location: Hahn 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86445674280 

10:45-11:05 AM

Speaker 1: Matthew Switzer
Topic: Between the City and the Wild: Challenges to Domestication from the Archives of Ecological Resistance

11:05-11:25 AM

Speaker 2: Alexander Davidovic (online)
Topic: Gaia and Becoming: Re-conceptualizing a Static Earth

11:25-11:45 AM

Speaker 3: John Jermier
Topic: The Great Acceleration and the Struggle for Visionary Corporate Environmentalism: Anticipating Ecological Civilization

11:45-12:15 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:45-12:15 PM

 Breakout Session 5 | Youth Forum
EcoCiv in Practice
Session Chairs: Xinlin Song & Lauren Elizabeth Clare
Location: Carnegie 109
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81917195957 

10:45-11:05 AM

Speaker 1:  Tim Corcoran (online)
Topic: The Earth Caretaker Way

11:05-11:45 AM

Facilitator: Henry Mitchell, Zhiyu Tian
Topic: Realizing Solarpunk - Presentation & Art Workshop for Visualizing Ecological Civilization through real-world practices in Agriculture and Architecture

11:45-12:15 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:45-12:15 PM

Breakout Session 6

Science, Technology, and Holistic Approaches
Session Chair: Meijun Fan
Location: Hahn 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85010725409   

10:45-11:05 AM

Speaker 1: Peter Wei
Topic: Recent Breakthroughs and Development Trends in Artificial Intelligence

11:05-11:25 AM

Speaker 2: Junfeng Zhang
Topic: Centered on Salt Production: Ecology, Technology, and Society in Hedong Salt Lake since the Ming and Qing Dynasties

11:25-11:45 AM

Speaker 3: Feihu Li
Topic: Holistic Approaches Towards Ecological Solutions: A Personal Perspective

11:45-12:15 PM

Discussion/Q&A

12:15 - 2:15 PM

Lunch Break
Lunch is provided for registered participants only

Location: Hahn

2:15-3:15 PM

Plenary Session
Eco-Literacy & Ecological Civilization
Speaker: David Orr

Location:  Hahn 101

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

3:15-3:30 PM

Coffee & Tea Break

3:30-5:00 PM

Breakout Session 1

EcoCiv Korea
Session Chairs: Gunna Jung & Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Location: Hahn 108
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

3:30-3:45 PM

Speaker 1: Yong-Sook Lee & Eojin Kang (online)
Topic: Ecological Transition Experiments in Seoul: From the Perspective of Participatory Action Research

3:45-4:00 PM

Speaker 2: Young Joon Kim (online)
Topic: Dreaming of Ecological College

4:00-4:15 PM

Speaker 3: Wang Shik Jang (online)
Topic: Naturing Human in Naturing Nature: A Taoist Understanding of Whitehead and Bruno Latour

4:15-4:30 PM

Speaker 4: Cherin Lee (online)
Topic: Environmental, Social, and Governance: A Journey Through Time—Reflections and Future Outlook

4:30-5:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:30-5:00 PM

Breakout Session 2

Philosophy & Theology for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Andrew M. Davis
Location: Carnegie 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88422160074 

3:30-3:50 PM

Speaker 1: Fatima Raza & Emma Hussey (online)
Topic: From Destruction to Harmony: Hobbesian Perspectives on Violence in the Anthropocene and Reimagining Human Impulses for a Unified Ecological Civilization

3:50-4:10 PM

Speaker 2: Muhammad Jalil Arif (online)
Topic: A Difference That Makes All the Difference: Reconceptualizing Anthropocentrism, Ecological Value, and Human Responsibility

4:10-4:30 PM

Speaker 3: TBD

4:30-5:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:30-5:00 PM

Breakout Session 3

Compassionate Communities for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Matt Segall
Location: Hahn 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86445674280 

3:30-3:50 PM

Speaker 1: Brian Mageo-Sausser
Topic: Maximus, Leopold, and the Ethical Community

3:50-4:10 PM

Speaker 2: Jay McDaniel (online)
Topic: Mindful Metaphysics: Ecological Civilization From the Ground Up

4:10-4:30 PM

Speaker 3: TBD

4:30-5:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:30-5:00 PM

Breakout Session 4

Psychology for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Jared Morningstar
Location: Carnegie 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85016122350 

3:30-3:50 PM

Speaker 1: Jared Morningstar
Topic: Climate Anxiety, Nature Relatedness, and Peak Experiences: An Anthropocosmic Perspective on the Constructive Role of Humanity in the Biosphere

3:50-4:10 PM

Speaker 2: Ronan Hallowell
Topic: Reconnecting for an Ecological Civilization: Ecological Medicine and Psychedelic Therapy

4:10-4:30 PM

Speaker 3: Diego Emiliano Lopez Pereda (online)
Topic: Decision Through Embodiment: A Compassionate Field Guide to the Eco-Self: Integrating Internal Family Systems and Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism with Cognitive Biology and Embodied Relevance

4:30-5:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:30-5:00 PM

Breakout Session 5 | Youth Forum
Circles of Compassion

Session Chairs: Xinlin Song & Lauren Elizabeth Clare
Location: Carnegie 109
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81917195957 

3:30-3:50 PM

Speaker: Ivy Yan (online)
Topic: Circles of Compassion: Integrating Compassionate Practice in Education to Nurture Self, Nature, and Community

3:50-4:45 PM

Facilitator: Lauren Elizabeth Clare
Activity: Mindfulness Practice with Relational Theater: Playing with Our Relational Space and the More-Than-Human World

4:45-5:00 PM

Dialogue, Reflections, and Integration

3:30-5:00 PM

Breakout Session 6

Frameworks for Ecological Civilization in Chinese Context
Session Chair: Zhihe Wang
Location: Hahn 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85010725409

3:30-3:50 PM

Speaker 1: Jindan Tong (online)

Topic: From Predatory Development to Humane Development: A Constructive Postmodern Ecological Economy

3:50-4:10 PM

Speaker 2: Shasha Ding
Topic: Constructing the Songshan Nature Education Center Under the Vision of Ecological Civilization

4:10-4:30 PM

Speaker 3: Ying Xue
Topic: The Meaning and Contribution of the Two Mountains Theory

4:30-5:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

5:30-8:30 PM

John Cobb Common Good Award Ceremony & Banquet

Location: Abernathy Dining Hall, Pilgrim Place

Friday, June 6, 2025

9:00-9:15 AM

Welcome & Housekeeping (Hahn 101)

9:15-10:15 AM

Plenary Session

Is Artificial Intelligence Creating Stockholm Syndrome?
Speaker: Clifford Cobb

Location:  Hahn 101

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

10:15-10:30 AM

Coffee & Tea Break

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 1

Religious Revolution for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Andrew M. Davis
Location: Room Carnegie 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88422160074   

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Fellipe dos Anjos Pereira 
Topic: The Falling Sky as Cosmopolitical Warfare: Eschatological Scenes of an Ancestral Catastrophe in Brazil

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Gregory Stevens (online)
Topic: EcoSocialism Is Not a Metaphor: Building the Socialist Alternative through Faith Communities

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Simeiqi He
Topic: It’s Just the Beginning: A Chinese Catholic View of Ecological Civilization

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 2

Science, Technology, & Philosophy
Session Chair: Jared Morningstar
Location: Carnegie 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85016122350   

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: grace grace grace (online)
Topic: Modes of Processing: Towards a Processual Approach to Signal Processing in Generative Sound and Media Arts

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Attila Grandpierre
Topic: Remarkable Connections Between Organic Philosophy and Organic Science

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Thomas Reinehr
Topic: Can Artificial Intelligence Terminate the Ecological Crisis?

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 3

Ecological Civilization in Indian Perspective
Session Chair: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Location: Hahn 108
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Kurian Kachappilly
Topic: Spirituality of Corporate Social Responsibility in Kautilya’s Arthashastra

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Baiju Markose (online)
Topic: Emplaced Subjectivity and Arboreal Activism: A Study of Kallel Pokkudan's Oiko-Autobiography

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Anand Veeraraj (online)
Topic: Is It Too Late? Toward The Meghalayan Paradigm Shift, 2.0., In Seizing an Ecological Civilization

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 4

Philosophy, Ethics, & Spirituality 
Session Chair: Zhihe Wang
Location: Hahn 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84061195695   

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Candice Olson
Topic: Reading Whitehead, Kastrup and Cavendish for a Deeper Eco-Spirituality

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Sam Harrelson (online)
Topic: Relational Roots and Ecological Futures: Bridging Whitehead, Cobb, and Gullah Wisdom Toward a Decolonized Ecological Civilization

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Pia Shaw (online)
Topic: Whiteheadian Emotion: The Feeling for Intrinsic Value  

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 5

Business & Economics for Ecological Civilization 
Session Chair: Matt Segall
Location: Hahn 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85010725409

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Bryant Burkhart
Topic: Debt Annihilation: Community-based Mutual Aid Strategies for Confronting Debt Bondage

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Marcus Barrick
Topic: Representation Vs. Reality: Why We Need a Process Economy Now

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Matt Segall
Topic: Whitehead's "Foresight," or How Process Philosophy can Shape the Business Mind of the Future

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 6 | Youth Forum
Tuning Into the Language of Gaia
Session Chairs: Xinlin Song & Lauren Elizabeth Clare
Location: Carnegie 109
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81917195957 

10:30-11:30 AM

Facilitators: Thomas Mansfield (Online) and Xinlin Song
Workshop: Thinking Like Gaia: Regenerative Practices and the Power of Cyclical Change - Nature walk, living systems thinking, and the adaptive cycle with Cards for Life

11:30-12:00 PM

Dialogue, Reflections, and Integration

12:00-2:00 PM

Lunch Break
Lunch is provided for registered participants only

Location: Hahn

2:00-3:00 PM

Plenary Sessions

Ecological Civilization: A New Business Perspective

Speaker: David Schwerin

The Responsibility and Role of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Ecological Civilization Construction

Speaker: WenLiang Li

Session Chair: Zhihe Wang

Location:  Hahn 101

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

3:00-3:15 PM

Coffee & Tea Break

3:15-4:45 PM

Breakout Session 1

EcoCiv Korea
Session Chairs: Yunjeong Han & Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Location: Hahn 108
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

3:15-3:30 PM

Speaker 1: Jihye Shin (online)
Topic: Fostering Ecological Citizenship in Korean University Students through Liberal Arts Education

3:30-3:45 PM

Speaker 2: Sukhyun Park (online)
Topic: An Alternative Economic Path Toward Sustainability with Ecological Abundance

3:45-4:00 PM

Speaker 3: Jung-Kyu Lee (online)
Topic: The Universe Story for Ecological Transition

4:00-4:15 PM

Speaker 4: JungEun Park (online)
Topic: Indigenous Peoples' Rights for the REal Climate Change: Focusing on the Declarations Made in Bolivia and Centered on the UN Declaration

4:15-4:45 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:15-4:45 PM

Breakout Session 2

Education for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Meijun Fan
Location: Carnegie 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85010725409 

3:15-3:35 PM

Speaker 1: Meijun Fan
Topic: Cultivating Eco-Persons: Process Education for an Ecological Civilization

3:35-3:55 PM

Speaker 2: Zhang Yuanyuan
Topic: Interdisciplinary Practice of Ecological Civilization Education: A Case Study of the Compilation of “Life’s Meaning and One Health”

3:55-4:15 PM

Speaker 3: Lynn De Jonghe
Topic: Building Learning Communities: Shantiniketan

4:15-4:45 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:15-4:45 PM

Breakout Session 3

Art, Beauty, and Architecture for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Andrew M. Davis
Location: Carnegie 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88422160074 

3:15-3:35 PM

Speaker 1: Li Ling
Topic: What is Constructive Post-Modern Architecture?: A Paradigm Shift Rooted in Process Philosophy

3:35-3:55 PM

Speaker 2: Sandra Lubarsky
Topic: What is Beauty For?

3:55-4:15 PM

Speaker 3: Zirou Zhang (online)
Topic: The Value of Ecological Art From the Perspective of Human Destiny Community

4:15-4:45 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:15-4:45 PM

Breakout Session 4

Better Thinking for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Zhihe Wang
Location: Hahn 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84061195695 

3:15-3:35 PM

Speaker 1: Juliet Bennett (online)
Topic: The Static-in-Process Key: Unlocking an Integrative Transformation

3:35-3:55 PM

Speaker 2: Zhihe Wang
Topic: Ecological Civilization Calls for a Constructive Postmodern Philosophy of Food

3:55-4:15 PM

Speaker 3: Xiao Yin
Topic: The Four Dimensions of Environmental Justice Issues in China from the Perspective of a Good Life

4:15-4:45 PM

Discussion/Q&A

3:15-4:45 PM

Breakout Session 5 | Youth Forum
Living Earth Eco-Innovation Challenge

Finalists Presentation
Session Chairs: Xinlin Song & Lauren Elizabeth Clare
Location: Carnegie 109
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81917195957 

3:15-3:35 PM

Introduction of Living Earth Eco-Innovation Challenge

Xinlin Song and Lauren Elizabeth Clare

3:35-3:45 PM

Speaker 1: Ryan Lo

Topic: An Analysis of the Capabilities and Technologies of Offshore Wind Connected by Policy

3:45-3:55 PM

Speaker 2: Jack Xu

Topic: Light Pollution Impact on Bird Rest and Flight Behavior (online)

3:55-4:05 PM

Speaker 3: Sophie Zhu

Topic: Pixels and Pollution, Fighting Microplastic Pollution with Deep Learning AI in Detecting Lung Inflammation  (online)

4:05-4:15 PM

Speaker 4: BingBing Luo

Topic: The Hidden Environmental Impacts of our Food Choices (online)

4:15-4:25 PM

Speaker 5: Lucy Huang

Topic: SHENG: Echoes from the Earth Lucy (online)

4:25-4:45 PM

Group Discussion/Q&A

4:45-5:00 PM

Coffee & Tea Break

5:00-6:00 PM

Plenary Session

Is It Too Late for Higher Education Reform?
Speaker: Marcus Ford

Location:  Hahn 101

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

Saturday, June 7, 2025

9:00-9:15 AM

Welcome & Housekeeping

9:15-10:15 AM

Plenary Session

The Great Story of Ecological Civilization and Our Common Future
Speaker: Susan Strauss

Location: Rose Hills Theatre (Smith Campus Center)

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

10:15-10:30 AM

Coffee & Tea Break

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 1

Education for Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Zhihe Wang
Location: Hahn 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84061195695

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Benjamin Dueck
Topic: Towards an Integral Information Literacy: Ecological Society and the Future of Academic Libraries

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Chris Hughes
Topic: PROcess: For Today’s Realities, a Course for Teenagers to Adults

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Daniel Dombrowski
Topic: Education and the Homo Ludens Hypothesis

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 2

Decolonialism & Indigenous Wisdom for Ecological Civilization 
Session Chair: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
Location: Hahn 108
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859   

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Kumrila Mongzar
Topic: Mind Beyond the Human: Extended Cognition and Indigenous Ontologies in a More-Than-Human World

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Heeyoung Jung
Topic: Braiding Wisdom: Ancestral Wisdom and Ecological Civilization for a Sustainable Future Through Postcolonial Ecotheology

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Lawrence Koval & George Valladares (online)
Topic: Decolonial AI? Exploring the Archive and its Industrial Uses

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 3

Human Exceptionalism Reconsidered
Session Chair: Andrew M. Davis
Location: Carnegie 107
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88422160074 

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Steven Shaviro (online)
Topic: Xenobiological Fantasias

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Brianne Donaldson
Topic: Crossing “The Rubicon” of Reason and Robbery in Whitehead’s Human Exceptionalism through Animals

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Claudius van Wyk (online)
Topic: Toward Ecological Civilisation: Holism, Life and Cosmos—A Unifying Ethos

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 4

Life-Centered Approaches to Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Jared Morningstar
Location: Carnegie 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85016122350

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Jonathan Cobb
Topic: Kenosis and Participatory Unfolding

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: William Rubel (online)
Topic: “Who sees the Ratio only sees himself”: Reopening Ecological Consciousness via Speculative Metaphysics with Blake and Whitehead

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Norbert Csizmadia (online)
Topic: From Ecological Civilization to the Turquoise Zones: The Life-Centered, Comprehensive, Sustainable Places

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

Breakout Session 5

US-China Relations and Ecological Civilization
Session Chair: Meijun Fan
Location: Hahn 214
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85010725409 

10:30-10:50 AM

Speaker 1: Yang Liu
Topic: US-China Collaboration Toward Ecological Civilization

10:50-11:10 AM

Speaker 2: Pinran Liu
Topic: China and the US Should Strengthen Cooperation to Address the Challenges of Climate Change

11:10-11:30 AM

Speaker 3: Lijun Zhu
Topic: The Role, Dilemma, and Path of Visiting Scholars in Ecological Civilization Exchanges

11:30-12:00 PM

Discussion/Q&A

10:30-12:00 PM

Breakout Session 6

Storytelling Workshop
Facilitator: Susan Strauss
Location: Carnegie 109
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81917195957 

12:00-12:15 PM

Coffee & Tea Break

12:15-1:00 PM

Closing Plenary

Intergenerational Dialogue
Session Chair: John Becker
Location: Rose Hills Theatre (Smith Campus Center)
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82786145859 

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