BRON TAYLOR
Previous Presentations
Bron Taylor has given dozens of lectures worldwide, many of which have been keynote or plenary presentations. He has presented on environmental topics in Canada, Chile, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, England, and Scotland. Feel free to contact Bron Taylor directly to discuss a possible appearance.
International
“Terrapolitanism or Totalitarianism: Considering the Progress and Peril of Dark Green Religion,” Presidential Address, Third Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2009.
“Trust in Nature / Faith in Civil Society,” Arne Naess Symposium,
Centre for Environment and Development, Oslo, August 2008.
Invited workshop participant and presenter, exploring Chile’s biosphere reserve proposal, “Ecologia y Sociedad: Enfrentando el Cambio Global con una Red de Sitios de Estudios Socio-Ecológicos de Largo Plazo al Sur de América” Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas & Unidad Académica Puerto Williams, Provincia Antártica Chilena, June 2008.
“The Role of Religion in Environmental Governance,” plenary speaker in two “impulse sessions” on “ethics” and “capacity building,
at the Freiburg Forum on Environmental Governance, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, April 2008.
“Paganism as a New World Religion,” Presidential Address, Second Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Morelia, Mexico, January 2008. Also presented “Tree Animism” during a Panel on “Sacred Trees and their Humans” and served as the respondent for the session, “Modern Spiritualities: Enchanted Science, Darwin, and the Apocalypse.”
Member and participant in the Oslo Revisionist School, an ad hoc think tank assessing the Brundtland Report, which was published in 1987 by the United Nations’ World Commission on Environment and Development as Our Common Future. The outcome is a report presented at the Centre for the Environment and Development Research Conference, held in Oslo on 27 April 2007, as well as at a side event arranged by the Norwegian Government at the United Nations’ Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York City, 8 May 2007.
Presentations provided during meetings in Oslo (February 2006) Rome (September 2006),
Stockholm (December 2006), Lisbon (February 2007) and Capri (April 2007).
“Values and Ethics in Sustainable Development,” at the International Conference on Sustainable Development,
Lisbon, Portugal, February 2007.
“`World Religion,’ `Nature Religion,’ and the Quest for Sustainability,” at the conference, “Religion, the Environment and Development: The potential for Partnership?” hosted by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), Oslo, November 2006.
“Blurring boundaries – Where do religious environmental organizations end and secular ones begin?” at the conference, “Religious NGOs, Civil Society and the Aid System,” an Exploratory Workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation/Standing Committee on Social Science, Oslo, November 2006.
“The Past and Future of the Religion and Nature Field,” keynote address, at the conference, “Critical Perspectives on Religion and the Environment,” sponsored by the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and the Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leeds University; meeting held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 2006.
“Religion and Nature—the Emerging Field,”
Centre for Human Ecology, Glasgow, Scotland, September 2006.
“Environmental Ethics and Religion in Reaction to the Crisis of Nature,”
plenary address, at the International Environment Symposium,
sponsored by the Presidency of Machelievler Municipality, Istanbul (Turkey), June 2006.
“Religion and Ethics in Models for Sustainability,” prepared comments for “Sustainability and Democracy: a Need for Alternatives,”
a preparatory workshop in advance of the 2007 International Conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Brundtland Report,
Center for Environment and Development, Universitetet i Oslo (Norway), February 2006.
“Surfing and Nature Religion,”
Universitetet i Oslo (Norway), February 2006.
“Globalizing Green Religion: Nature Religion from Deep Ecology, to Radical Environmentalism, and the United Nations,”
Universitetet i Bergen (Norway), February 2006.
“Religion and the Environment in the International Context,” plenary presentation, Religion and Environment in Europe Workshop,
sponsored by the European Science Foundation, Benediktbeuern, Germany, June 2005.
“Revisiting Ecoterrorism,” Religion(en) im Konflict conference,
Deutchen Verreinigung fur Religionsgeschichte, Erfurt Germany, 28 September 2003.
“Civil Earth Religion and the Sacralization of the Biosphere,” Environment, Religion, and Globalized Spaces,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 25&26 September 2003.
“A Green Future for Ritual and Religion?” keynote presentation, African Religion and Ritual Conference,
National Science Foundation, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, September 2003.
“Religion & Ecology: Visions for an Emerging Academic Field,” plenary speaker for the annual conference, “Religious Studies in Secondary Schools,” Toronto Canada, November 2002.
“Religion, Nature, and Religious Studies,” International Association for the History of Religions Congress, Durban, South Africa, August 2000.
“First International Workshop for the Study of Millennial Movements and Violence, using Morphological Analysis,” sponsored by FOA (Swedish National Defense Research Establishment), Stockholm Sweden, July 2000.
“Diggers, Wolves, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Global Bricolage and the Question of Violence within the Subcultures of Radical Environmentalism,” for conference on “Rejected and Suppressed Knowledge: The Racist Right and the Cultic Milieu,” Sponsored by the Center for Migration Studies and the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, Stockholm University, February 1997.
“Evoking the Ecological Self: Art and Ritual Resistance to the War on Nature,” International Transpersonal Association, 13th Annual Conference, Killarney, Ireland. Also during a Deep Ecology symposium gave presentation entitled “The International Deep Ecology Movement: Lessons from the Front Lines,” May 1994.
Domestic
“Dark Green Religion and Environmental Studies,” Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.
“Developing an Environmental Studies Program” (with David Barnhill), Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2009.
“Dark Green Religion," Invited Lecture, University of North Texas, May 2009.
“Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Quest for Sustainability."
Keynote Address, Conference on Humanities and Sustainability, Florida Gulf Coast University, May 2009.
“From Earth Day to Earth Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Quest for Sustainability."
Earth Day lecture, Syracuse University, April 2009.
“Beyond Taboo: The Interdisciplinary Imperative in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.” Wrigley Lecture, Arizona State University, November 2008. Also presented on “The Humanities & Sustainability Studies: Gaining Place at the Table.”
“Rethink Everything!: The Sustainability Challenge to Religious Ethics,” inaugural lecture, “Technology and Local Ecological Health” series, Christian Studies Center, Gainesville Florida, March 2008.
“Science & Spirituality: Making the Connection in the Cause of Conservation,” keynote presentation, 4th International Partners in Flight Conference entitled “Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People,” McAllen, Texas, February 2008.
“Thinking like a Watershed: Spirituality, Ethics and the History of Watershed Organizing in the United States,” plenary speaker,
Symposium on Sustainable Water Resources, University of Florida Water Institute, February 2008.
“Bounding Paganism: Reflections on the Boundaries of the Scholarly Construction of Paganism,”
Association for the Sociology of Religion, New York City, August 2007.
“Justice, Faith, and the Quest for Sustainability: From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond,” keynote presentation,
Young Adult Ecumenical Forum on Environmental Justice 2007, March Chapel at Boston University, July 2007.
“Our Common Future: Twenty Years On,” co-presenter with four others of the work of the Oslo Sustainability Initiative, at a side event arranged by the Norwegian Government at the United Nations’ Commission on Sustainable Development Meeting, New York City, 8 May 2007.
“Sustainability Politics from the Ecotone to the Biosphere,” Invited Lecture, Northern Arizona University, May 2007.
“Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front: Exploring the Religious Dimensions of the Radical Environmental Movement through Sound, Performance and Art,” and “Surfing as Nature Religion,” Carleton College (Minnesota), February 2007.
“The Spirituality, Ritualizing and Activism of Radical Environmentalism,” College of Charleston (South Carolina), October 2006.
“A Green Future for Religion and the Earth?,” plenary presentation for the inaugural conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, The University of Florida, April 2006.
“Surfing into Spirituality,” International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, The University of Florida, April 2006
“From the Ground Up: Growing a Green Future for Religion and Ethics,” invited lecture for the “Ethics, Values, and the Environment” conference, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and the Center for the Environment, Harvard University, March 2006.
“Globalization and Earth-Based Spiritualities,” Hamilton College, public lecture (and classroom visits), March 2006.
“Religion, Nature, and Ecology: An Ethical Mix?,” four presentations over two days as featured presenter for
the annual conference of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education, Washington DC, April 2005.
“Environmental Ethics,” Askew Institute on Politics and Society, Gainesville Florida, March 2005.
“Rights and Nature,” Stetson University Honors Program, Deland Florida, March 2005.
“Earth First!, Ritual, and Nature Religion,” Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources,
The University of Vermont, October 2004.
“The Future of the Humanities in Environmental Education,” University Lecture, The University of North Texas, February 2005.
“Radical Environmentalism and Bioregionalism: The Promise and Peril of Dark Green Religion,”
University Lecture, Syracuse University, September 2004.
“Earth First!, Ritual, and Nature Religion,” Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont, October 2004.
“Teaching Science in Religion and Ecology Curricula,” Seminar on Teaching Religion and Ecology, Indiana University, October 2003.
“The United Nations and the Future of Sustainability Politics,” keynote presentation,
Roots and Shoots Conference (Jane Goodall Institute), Warren Wilson College, April 2003.
“Eco-Anarchy or Eco-Law?: Sustainability Politics and Spirituality from Radical Environmentalism to the World Summit on Sustainability,” keynote presentation, 9th Annual Public Interest Environmental conference on “Saving What’s Left”, the University of Florida Law School, February 2003.
“Revolutionary Environmentalism: Promise or Peril?,” keynote presentation, “Revolutionary Ecology” conference,
California State University, Fresno, January 2003.
“Global Ethics and the World Summit on Sustainable Development: Johannesburg and the Future of Sustainability Politics,”
keynote presentation, Earth Charter Summit, the University of Wisconsin, September 2002.
“Radical Environmentalism and Bioregionalism: The Promise and Peril of Dark Green Religion,”
Anthropology Forum, California State University Chico, April 2002.
“Dark Green Religion and Bioregional Politics: Toward Ecotopia or Catastrophe?,”
Yulee Seminar, University of Florida (Gainesville), April 2001.
“Who is Who Resisting the WTO?: The Roots of the Anti-Globalization Protest in the United States,” keynote address for the conference “Green Protest: Activism to Protect the Environment Around the Globe,” co-sponsored by the German Historical Institute and Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida, December 2000.
“Terrorism and Beyond: the 21st Century,” discussant, for “Terrorism and Beyond” conference, Oklahoma City, April 2000.
“Green Religion in the Western United States: Mapping the terrain from Bioregional Deep Ecology to Terrapolitan Earth Religion,” Wirth Forum on Religion, Nature, and the West, sponsored by the Center of the American West, University of Colorado, March 2000.
“Environmental Resistance: Lessons from the Front Lines,” Earth Day keynote address,
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pennsylvania, April 1999.
“Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality: From Radical Environmentalism to Scientific Paganism,” presentation for a “Consultation on Spirituality,” funded by the Henry Luce Foundation of New York and sponsored by the Religious Studies Department at University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1998.
“Grassroots Resistance to Deforestation in the United States: Reading the Tactical Landscape,”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 1998.
“Globalization, Religion, and Terrorist Violence in the Cultic Milieu of Radical Environmentalism,” Religion and Environmentalism Section, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego, November 1997.
“Bioregionalism: an Ethics of Loyalty to Place,” presentation for a roundtable conference on “Bioregionalism and its Influence in Europe in the United States,” Dumbarton Oaks (The Harvard University Center for the Study of Landscape Architecture), Washington DC, April 1997.
“Environmental Resistance: Lessons from the Front Lines,” Earth Day keynote address, University of Wisconsin Stout, April 1997.
“Earth First!, Native Nations, and Radical Religion,” satellite lecture, Arctic Sivunmun Ilisagvik College, Barrow, Alaska, April 1997.
“Locating the Sacred: the Controversy over the Mount Graham International Observatory,” plenary speaker and panelist for
OnSite/InSight: Nature, Humanity, and Time; a Symposium on Landscape History. Pennsylvania State University, June 1996.
“Environmental Paganism and Ecological Resistance: Problems and Prospects in the Global Context,” plenary speaker and panelist, at the conference entitled Ecological Resistance Movements: Religion, Politics, Ethics. University of Wisconsin Madison, November 1995.
“Popular Ecological Resistance Movements: Trends and Tendencies in the Global Context,” Environmental Politics and Policy Section,
Western Political Science Association Meeting, Portland Oregon, March 1995.
“Art, Religion, Ritual, and Ecological Resistance in the North American Deep Ecology Movement,”
seminar presented to the
Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison, October 1994.
“A Planetary Tour of Ecological Resistance Movements,” featured speaker sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Presentations at two Wisconsin universities, Spring 1994.
“The Global Emergence of Militant Environmentalism,” Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association,
Washington, D.C., March 1994.
“Radical Environmentalism,” invited presentation, Environmental Studies Program, University of Southern California, February 1994.
“Earth or Outer Space as Sacred Place: the Battle over the Mount Graham International Observatory,”
faculty colloquium, the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., November 1993.
“Environmental Paganism and Musical Ritualizing: Field Recordings from Earth First! Wilderness Gatherings,” plenary address,
North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference, Weber State University, Ogden Utah, November 1993.
“The Primal Spirituality and Musical Ritualizing of Earth First!,” featured speaker, sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for the Study of War, Peace, and Global cooperation. Presentation at St. Norbert’s College, DePere Wisconsin, April 1993.
“Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics,” featured speaker, sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Presentations at three Colleges and Universities, Fall 1992
“Affirmative Action at Work: Battleground of Competing Values,” keynote address, Ethics in Public Life lecture series,
Kansas Wesleyan University, September 1992.
“Earth First!’s Primal Spirituality,” public lecture, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, September 1992.
Seminar on Radical Environmentalism, The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas, September 1992.
“Ecowarriors and the Global Apocalypse: the Primal Spirituality of Earth First!,” featured speaker, sponsored by
the
Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Presentations at four Wisconsin Colleges and Universities, Spring 1992.
“Earth First!’s Spiritual Politics,” seminar sponsored by the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University, August 1991.
“A Portrait of the Ethics and Politics of Earth First!,” 5th annual Casassa Conference entitled Ecological Prospects: Theory and Practice.
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, March 1991.
American Academy of Religion (Annual Meetings)
“Terrapolitan Earth Religion or Eco-totalitarianism? Assessing the Peril and Promise of Nature Religion in Environmental Governance,”
Contemporary Pagan Studies Group, Toronto, Canada, November 2009.
“Ecoterrorism, and the Asylum: Crazy Cases from Earth First! to the Unabomber and the Earth Liberation Front,”
Law, Religion & Culture Group, and respondent to papers in a session entitled “Putting Your Self Out There: Risk and Faith in Fieldwork,” Anthropology of Religion Group, Chicago, Illinois, November 2008.
“The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature,” respondent to a panel of scholars evaluating this work, in a special session
sponsored by the Journal for the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, California, November 2007.
“Dark Green Religion: Gaian Earth Spirituality, Neo-Animism, and the Transformation of Global Environmental Politics,”
Religion and Ecology Group, San Diego, California, November 2007.
“Surfing into Spirituality,” New Religious Movements Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2005.
“Disney Worlds at War,” Religion and Ecology Group, San Antonio, Texas, November 2004.
“The Earth in Play: Globalization and Religious Ethics at the World Summit on Sustainable Development,”
Ethics Section, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2003.
“Religion and Ethics at the United Nation’s sponsored World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa,”
Religion and Ecology Group, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2003.
“World Religions and Ecology: The Harvard Book Series and Beyond,” discussant, Religion and Ecology Group,
Denver Colorado, November 2001.
“Establishing Green Religion,” Religion and Law, and Indigenous Studies Sections,
Nashville Tennessee, November 2000.
“Bioregional Deep Ecology as Social Philosophy: A Critique and Proposal for a Terrapolitan, Planetary, Civic Earth Religion,”
Ethics Section, Boston Massachusetts, November 1999.
“Countercultural Bioregionalism: From Spiritual Roots to the Transformation of Resource Regimes,”
Religion and Ecology Group, Orlando Florida, November 1998.
“Nature Religion as a Theoretical Construct: Reflections from an Emerging Field,”
panelist, Comparative Studies in Religion
and New Religious Movements Sections,
Orlando Florida, November 1998.
“Pagan Environmentalism and Green Apocalypticism – from Global Bricolage to the Question of Violence,”
New Religious Movements Group, San Francisco, November 1997.
“When is Apocalypticism Millenarian? Reflections Based on the Subcultures of Radical Environmentalism,”
Millennialism Studies Consultation, San Francisco, November 1997.
“Giving the Devil its Due, or Your Soul? – Questions for Callicott’s ‘Postmodern’ Environmental Ethics,”
Ecology and Religion Group, New Orleans, November 1996.
“Defending Livelihoods: Religious Movements toward Ecological Justice,”
Ecology and Religion Group, Philadelphia, November 1995.
“Beginning the Dialogue: Native Voices and Environmental Concerns,”
respondent during this session co-sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group and the Religion and Ecology Group,
Philadelphia, November 1995.
“Environmental Paganism and the Resacralization of Turtle Island,”
Ecology and Religion Group, Chicago, November 1994.
“Empirical and Normative Reflections on Deep Ecology’s Appropriation of Native American Spiritualities,”
North American Religion Section, Washington, D.C., November 1993.
“Evoking the Ecological Self: Art as Resistance in Deep Ecology’s Spiritual Politics,”
Upper Midwest Regional Conference, April 15, 1993.
“Musical Liturgy and Sacred Space in Earth First!’s Primal Spirituality,”
Comparative Studies in Religion Section, San Francisco, December 1992.
“Asian Spirituality in Earth First!’s Religious Radicalism,”
North American Religion Section, Kansas City, November 1991.
“Affirmative Action in Theory and Practice,”
Ethics Section, convener and panelist, Anaheim, CA, November 1989.
“Putting Our House in Order: Affirmative Action and the Academy,”
Ethics Section, Chicago, November 1988.
“Affirmative Action and Moral Meaning: toward a Descriptive and Normative Ethical Analysis of Affected Group Attitudes,”
Ethics Section, Boston, December 1987.
On-Campus and Community Presentations
Over sixty more available on request.
Feel free to contact Bron Taylor directly to discuss a possible appearance.