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Connelly Center

Refreshments and light snacks

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Connelly Center

Fr. Peter Donohue, O.S.A.
President
Villanova University

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Connelly Center

Dr. Laura Westra
Professor Emerita, Philosophy
University of Windsor
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Ottawa
Faculty of Law
“Ecological Integrity, Sustainability and the Law: From Science to Human Rights.”

Connelly Center

• Evelyn Brister
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Rochester Institute of Technology
  and
  Richard Shearman
  Associate Professor, Science
  Technology, and Society/Public Policy
  Rochester Institute of Technology
  “Two Cultures: Identifying Sustainability Between the Social and Natural Sciences.”
• Matthew Ally
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Borough of Manhattan Community College of The City University of New York
  “Which Sustainability? Whose Planet? Why Ask? : Environmental Ethics and Earth System Science in the Crucible of Lived Experience.”
• Paul Reitan
  Professor Emeritus
  Department of Geology
  University at Buffalo
  “A Culture of Sustainability - Can Science and Ecosophy Help?”
  Chair: Jody Roberts
  Program Manager
  Environmental History and Policy
  Center for Contemporary History and Policy Chemical Heritage Foundation

• Kristztina Pongratz-Chander
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Government
  Framingham State College
  “Sustainability and Coffee Production in Costa Rica: Is Fair Trade the Answer?”
• Todd LeVasseur
  doctoral candidate,
  Religion Department
  University of Florida
  “Sustainability and Farming Systems—What if the waters dry up? A case study from Andhra Pradesh, India.”
• Harold Leaman
  Dept. of Geography and the Environment Villanova University
  “The Need For Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Sahel.”
  Chair: Jennifer Gilbert
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Geography and the Environment
  Villanova University
   

• James O’Brien
  Mechanical Engineering Department
  Villanova University
• Elizabeth Keech
  Assistant Professor
  College of Nursing
  Villanova University
• Jordan Ermilio
  Adviser
  Engineers Without Borders
  Villanova University
• Ruth McDermott-Levy
  Assistant Professor
  College of Nursing
  Villanova University

• Gerard Jones
  Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  Villanova University
  “A Preliminary Analysis and Design of an Active Solar Heating System for a Green Dormitory at Villanova University.”
• Pritpal Singh
  Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Villanova University
  “Solar Electric System Design and Implementation for Villanova’s Engineering Building.”
• Farshad Rajabipour
  Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  University of Hawaii – Manoa
  Aleksandra Radlinska
  Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Villanova University
  “Engineering for a Sustainable World: Active Learning and Applying Sustainability through Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Green Building Performance.”
  Chair: Andrea L. Welker
  Associate Professor
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Villanova University

• Abigail Levin
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Niagara University
  “Deeply Sustainable: Reflections on the Relationship Between Deep Ecology and Sustainability.”
  • Kyoo Lee
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. “Sustained Shadows of Sustainability: A Resistentialist Look at Bio-centric Ableism.”
  • Patrick Hurley
  Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Ursinus College
  “Linking livelihoods? Connected landscapes and the lessons of sweetgrass basket-making in the greater Mt. Pleasant, SC area for suburban sustainability planning.”
  Chair: Christopher Ruth
  Philosophy Department
  Villanova University

• Carolyn Bitzer
  Women’s Studies
  University of Delaware
  “The Need for Multidimensional Gender Equity in Sustainable Development (India).”
• Ronald A. Harris
  Director and Associate Professor
  Health Policy and Systems Management Program
  Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health
  “Sustainable Healthcare: Human Longevity, Economic Stability, Entitlement Programs, and Generational Equity.”
• Ruth McDermott-Levy
  Assistant Professor
  College of Nursing
  Villanova University
  "Nurses' Advocacy for Environmental Health."
  Chair: Mike Kim
  Philosophy Department
  Villanova University
   

• Medard Gabel
  Executive Director of BigPictureSmallWorld. “Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability.”
• Margaret Betz
  Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
  Rutgers University-Camden
  “A Future Free of Flesh: The Imminent Need for an Ethical Vegetarianism.”
• Lisa Bergin
  Associate Professor of Philosophy
  Hamline University
  “Sustainability and the “Coevolutionary Bargain”: Michael Pollan, Social Contract Theory, Malcolm X and the Broad-Breasted White Turkey.”
  Chair: TBA

• Laura Westra
  Professor Emerita (Philosophy)
  University of Windsor
  “Water Rights? Positive and Negative Aspects.”
• Ruth Gordon
  Professor of Law
  Villanova Univ. School of Law
  “Unsustainable Development.”
• Joseph Dellapenna
  Professor of Law
  Villanova Univ. School of Law
  “Sustainability as a Legal Standard.”
  Chair: Robert Langran
  Professor and Chair
  Political Science Department
  Villanova University
   

• Sarah Banas
  Program Associate
  Center for Science, Technology, and Sustainability
  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  “Professional Association Support for Sustainability across the Sciences.”
• Debra Ruben
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Architecture and Interiors
  Drexel University
  “A Cross Disciplinary Approach to Humanitarian Crises.”

• Maria Elena Arias-Zelidon, MA Candidate/Teaching Assistant in Hispanic Studies, Villanova University
  Of Human Nature.”
• Mary Lonergan
  Co-Founder, Back2Tap LLC. “Getting Back2Tap!”
• Jessica Sprajcar
  Natural Resource Program Specialist
  Office of Conservation Science
  Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
  “Creating Sustainable Community Parks.”

Villanova Room
Connelly Center

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
President, Waterkeeper Alliance;
Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney
Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic
“Our Environmental Destiny.”
 

• Wendy Lynne Lee
  Professor of Philosophy
  Bloomsburg University
  “The Meaning of Governor Sarah Palin’s Nomination for Vice President and Some of Its Implications for Environmental Philosophy.”
• Nancy McHugh
  Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director of Women's Studies
  Wittenberg University
  “Sustaining Science, Sustaining Communities.”
• Paul M. Pulé
  Research Associate
  School of Sustainability
  Murdoch University, Australia
  “A Declaration of Caring: Toward An Ecological Masculinism.”
• Amber L. Katherine
  Professor, Philosophy & Gender Studies, Santa Monica College
  “The Question Concerning Sustainability.”
  Chair: Barbara Wall
  Associate Professor of Philosophy
  Vice-President, Office of Mission Effectiveness
  Villanova University
   

• Wendy Boring
  Assistant Professor
  Department of History
  Willamette University
  “Western Civilization and Sustainability: Re-visioning the Narrative.
• Sharon Meagher
  Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women’s Studies
  The University of Scranton
  “Pedagogical Strategies: Infusing Sustainability into the Curriculum.”
• Mark Cladis
  Professor and Chair, Religious Studies, Brown University
  “Religion and Democracy Gone Wild: Waking up to an Environmental Democratic Vision.”
  Chair: Paul C. Rosier
  Associate Professor
  Department of History
  Villanova University

• Maria Lai-Ling Lam
  Associate Professor
  School of Business
  Malone University.
  “Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenges of Foreign Multinational Enterprises in China”
• Ruzanna Ghurbanyan
  private section, Armenia.
  “Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Caucasus.”
• Marisha Stock
  Management Consultant, INCON
  (Tbilisi, Georgia /St. Petersburg, Russia). “Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship.”
• Enrico Wensing
  Founder, Ecosphere Net.
  “Toward A World Connected in Action for Sustainability.”
  Chair: H. G. Chissell
  Management Consultant
  Gap International
  Founder, Swarthmore College Sustainability Network
   

• Gary McDonough
  Professor and Chair of the Program of Growth and Structure of Cities
  Bryn Mawr College
  “Barcelona Sostenible? Policy, Imagery and Global Context in Urban Sustainability.”
• Joana C. Bezerra
  doctoral candidate, Environment and Society,
  State University of Campinas
  Unicamp, Brazil.
  “Sustainability Indicators: A Study on the Experiences in the Construction of Sustainable Development Indicators.”
• Richardson Dilworth
  Assistant Professor
  Department of History and Politics
  Drexel University
  “Measuring Sustainability in Infrastructure: The Case of Philadelphia.”
  Chair: Bridget Wadzuk
  Asst. Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Villanova University
   

• Chaone Mallory
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Villanova University
  “Plumwood and Political Solidarity: Standing With the Natural Other.”
• Sally Scholz
  Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
  “Political Solidarity and Sustainability.”
• Piers H.G. Stephens
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  University of Georgia
  “Plumwood, Property, Selfhood, and Sustainability.”
  Chair: Sarah Vitale, Philosophy Department, Villanova University
   

• Jason Slipp
  Instructional Technologist
  Lehigh University
  “Campus Sustainability: How to foster culture change and promote a sense of sustainability on a college campus; Lessons learned from Lehigh University.”
• Cynthia Cann
  Associate Professor
  Kania School of Management
  University of Scranton
  “One Example of Sustainable, LEED Decision Making in Higher Education.”
• Daniel McFee
  Associate Professor of Religious Studies Co-Director
  The Evelyn Lincoln Institute for Ethics and Society
  Mercyhurst College
  “Sustainability at Mercyhurst College – Identifying Consequences that Matter.”
  Chair: Nancy Kelley
  Director
  Academic Learning Communities
  Villanova University

• Eran Feitelson
  Director
  Federmann School of Public Policy and Government Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  “Think Globally and Act Locally or Act Locally and Think Globally? The Lessons from Israel.”
• Roberto P. Guimaraes
  Professor
  Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration
  Getulio Vargas Foundation
  “The International Negotiation Agenda on the Environment – continuity and change in the Brazilian position.”
• Jennifer Gilbert
  Post-Doctoral Fellow
  Geography and the Environment Department
  Villanova University
  “The telephone game from scientific research to policy implementation for agricultural ecosystems.”
  Chair: Richardson Dilworth
  Assistant Professor
  Dept. of History and Politics
  Drexel University
   

• Connie Lasher
  Founder and Executive Director
  The John Paul II Institute for Theology & Environmental Studies
  “Sustaining Wonder: Ecological Identity and the Theological Foundations of Sustainability.”
• Gary Chamberlain
  Professor of Christian Ethics, Theology and Religious Studies Dept.
  Environmental Studies Program
  Seattle University
  “The Global Water Crisis: Religion and Ethical Perspectives on Sustainability.”
• Chara Armon
  Adjunct Professor
  College of Liberal and Professional Studies University of Pennsylvania
  “Finding the Concept of Nature as Spiritual Sustenance in the History of Christianity.”
  Chair: Christopher C. Roberts
  Catherine of Siena Ethics Fellow
  Villanova University
   

• Kim Y. Hiller Connell
  Assistant Professor
  Apparel, Textiles, & Interior Design
  Kansas State University
  “Sustainable Apparel Consumption: An Examination of Acquisition Barriers.”
• Holley Wlodarczyk
  Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
  “How Green is the American Dream? Sustainability, Suburbia, and the Single-Family Home.”
• Ross Lee
  DuPont Company
  Director
  Technology and New Business Development
  Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
  Villanova University
  “Sustainable Packaging: Current Drivers; Future Directions.”
• Steve Vanderheiden
  Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
  “Citizens and Consumers: Individual Responsibility for Sustainability.”
  Chair: Cnythia Cann
  Associate Professor
  Kania School of Management
  University of Scranton
   

• John Kozup
  Associate Professor of Marketing
  Director
  Center for Marketing and Public Policy Research
  Villanova School of Business
• Rich Leimsider
  Director
  Center for Business Education
  The Aspen Institut
• John A. Pearce II
  VSB Endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Villanova School of Business
• Jonathan Doh
  Herbert G. Rammrath Chair in International Business
  Villanova School of Business
• Debra Rowe
  Director
  U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
• Elizabeth Howlett
  Professor
  Walton College of Business
  University of Arkansas
• Jeremy Kees
  Assistant Professor
  Marketing and Business Law
  Villanova School of Business
  Chair: Rich Leimsider
  Director
  Center for Business Education
  The Aspen Institute
   

• Paul Morgan
  Associate Professor
  Department of Professional and Secondary Education
  West Chester University
  “Education for Sustainability: A Worldview Changing Experience.”
• Ashley Pryor
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
  The University of Toledo
  “Sustaining Higher Education: The Role of Contemplative Studies Pedagogy in Creating More Sustainable Learning Environments.”
• Carla Conti
  English Teacher
  Universidade Estadual de Goiás and Linguistics and
  teacher educator in
  Universidade Salgado de Oliveira, Brazil. “Sustainability in the university: a transdisciplinary practice in teacher education.”
• Gary Chamberlain
  Professor of Christian Ethics
  Theology and Religious Studies Dept.
  Environmental Studies Program
  Seattle University;
  Trileigh Tucker
  Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
  Seattle University
  “Crisis and Contemplation: Integrating mind, heart, and soul in sustainability education.”
  Chair: Daniel McFee
  Associate Professor of Religious Studies
  Co-Director, The Evelyn Lincoln Institute for Ethics and Society
  Mercyhurst College
   

• Kevin Woods
  Doctoral Candidate, College of Engineering
  Villanova University
  “Thermal Modeling of a Geothermal Well Field for Ground Source Water Heat Pump Systems.”
• Chris Smith, MPA Candidate, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. “Steps Toward a Sustainable Austin Energy: The Roadmap.”
• Melissa Lott, MS Candidate, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin. “Designing a Sustainable Energy Future through Environmental & Economic Tradeoff Analysis.”
  Chair: Andrea L. Welker, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University

Chanticleer Garden Excursion (optional-$10 transportation/admission)

Play:
"A Sense of Wonder

Theatre, Connelly Center

• Makoto Usami
  Professor of Law and Philosophy
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
  “The Moral Foundations of Sustainability: Rights v. Fairness.”
• Rochelle Green
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Goucher College
  “Capitalist Globalization, Justice, and the Possibility of Sustaining Hope.”
• Amos Nascimento
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  University of Washington-Tacoma
  “From Sustainability to Responsibility: Searching for a Global Perspective to Global Problems.”
  Chair: Sally Scholz, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University

• Cathy A. Rusinko
  Associate Professor of Management
  School of Business Administration
  Philadelphia University
  “Developing an Inter-Disciplinary Minor in Sustainability.”
• Linda M. Sama
  Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Professor of Management
  The Peter J. Tobin College of Business
  St. John’s University
  “Developing a Micro-Finance Center.”
• Stephanie Welcomer, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Management
  Maine Business School
  University of Maine.
  “Developing a Graduate Program in Sustainability.”
  Chair: Nicholas Rongione
  Associate Professor
  Management Department
  Villanova School of Business

• Vuyani Monyake
  Hydrobiologist
  Department of Water Affairs
  Ministry of Natural Resources, Lesotho. “Water and Sustainable Textile Industrial Development in Lesotho.”
• John Komlos
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  Civil and Environmental Engineering Villanova University;
  David Rounce
  Civil and Environmental Engineering Villanova University.
  “Nutrients and Metals Removal in a Stormwater Abatement System for Sustainable Urban Development.”
• Jessica Reisert
  Doctoral Candidate
  Berlin University of Technology
  Department of Environmental Assessment and Environmental Policy.
  “Stakeholder influence in Water Management in Germany and Washington State.”
  Chair: Andrea L. Welker
  Associate Professor
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Villanova University
   

• Ashlynn Stillwell, MS
  Candidate in Environmental & Water Resources Engineering
  University of Texas at Austin
  “Sustainability and Engineering: Energy, Water, and Environmental Systems.”
• Cassandra Telenko
  Doctoral Program, Design and Manufacturing|
  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  The University of Texas at Austin. “Innovative and Derivative Sustainable Product Design: An Historical Survey.”
• Brian Alessi
  Sustainability Consultant
  The Sheward Partnership
  “Strategic Implementation of Regenerative Development Using Mechanism Design Theory and Metagame Analysis.”
• Guillaume Turcotte
  GIS Laboratory Technician
  Department of Geography & the Environment
  Villanova University
  “Geographic Information Systems and Sustainable Practices.”
  Chair: Aleksandra Radlinska
  Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Villanova University

Closing Session and

Annual Alumni/Alumnae Sustainability Lecture
Deborah Murray
B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering Villanova University
Class of 1994
“Journey Towards Sustainability”