St Andrews, 17 and 18 March 2016
The two days will feature a series of presentations by scholars, a transdisciplinary discussion panel and two keynote addresses delivered by Professor Debbora Battaglia (Thursday 17 March at 5.30pm) and Professor Benjamin Sovacool (Friday 18 March at 9.00am). Please note that the keynotes are FREE to attend and does not require registration.
Details of the conference, and how to register, can be found at the following link:
http://www.energyethics.org.uk
What is the place of energy in human life? How do we make sense of the ways in which we produce, distribute and use it? And how do such actions relate to what we consider to be right or good? At a time when the global consumption and production of energy is rising at an astonishing rate, this conference will explore the centrality of ethical practice, judgment and questioning in our relationship with energy. By drawing on recent debates in anthropology and beyond, we seek to offer a new approach to energy ethics that moves away from the limitations of corporate social responsibility frameworks that are commonly applied. These supposedly ‘win-win’ twinnings of the corporate and the social, the market and morality, subsume ethics within highly particular value regimes related to marketing, advertising and pricing. We will also challenge assumptions that see ethics as a descriptive label associated first and foremost with renewable energy resources. Recognizing ethical sensibility to be part of the human condition and central to the potential of human flourishing, the conference invites its audience to think of energy ethics in capacious ways that can encompass the views of any energy actor, whether a fracker, a windmill engineer or a company CEO.
Key note speakers:
Professor Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College.
Professor and Director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology Benjamin K. Sovacool, University of Aarhus
Contact person:
Mette M. High, mmh20
