Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Peter Bunyard is a freelance author and environmentalist, and was the founding science editor of Ecologist magazine.
He has worked as consultant editor for the United Nations Environment Programme review on Industry and the Environment, and was secretary and editor of the Committee for the Study of Nuclear Economics. A fellow of the Linnean Society, he has conducted field work in the Colombian Amazon on the role of rainforests in global warming.
He lives in Cornwall, and has two grandchildren.
Dr. Weichi Zhou is an associate professor at the Institute for World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. He is a scholar of comparative religion, particularly of Confucian and Christian thought. He has published two books in Chinese on the thought of the Christian theologian, Augustine of Hippo, along with several Chinese translations of Christian and Confucian works. In addition, he has multiple articles and presentations on topics in the fields of Christian Theology, Confucian Studies, Philosophy of Religion, and Religious Pluralism. His lecture for IEW is titled "A Just War or Just a War?: Confucian and Christian
Perspectives."
The following has CANCELLED. The speaker will be rescheduled for Spring 2008.
Dr. Betsy Hartmann is the director of the Population and Development Program and associate professor of development studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.
A longstanding activist in the international women’s health movement, she writes and speaks frequently on the intersections between reproductive rights, population, immigration,
environment and security concerns.
She is the author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (Boston: South End Press, 1995) and a political thriller about the Far Right, The Truth about Fire (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002).
She is co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (London: Zed Books; San
Francisco: Food First; and Delhi, India: Oxford University Press India, 1983) and a co-editor of Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
With Joni Seager she is co-author of the report Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental
Assessment and Early Warning: Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities (United Nations Environment Program, Division of Early Warning and Assessment, 2005). Her novel Deadly Election will be published by White River Press in early 2008.