Conference Program and Registration Links - LIBERALISM AND ECOLOGY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE - June 30 - July 1-2, 2022 (original) (raw)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM - LIBERALISM AND ECOLOGY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE June 30, 2022 University of Messina, Piazza Pugliatti, 1 , 98122, Messina, Italy June 30, 2022 Registration Link: Webinar Registration - Zoom: https://wvu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_2q0CctaIRD-RrDxmfJaWQw 9:30 - 10:15 Welcoming Remarks Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Rector of University of Messina (Italy) Francesco Astone, Director of the Department of Law, University of Messina (Italy) Welcome Addresses and Presentation of the Theme by the Conference Chairs Paolo Farah West Virginia University, Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics (USA) & gLAWcal (UK) – Member of the Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) ‍ Alessio Lo Giudice University of Messina, Department of Law (Italy) 10:15 - 13:00 Inaugural Panel Chair: Carmela Panella, University of Messina, Department of Law (Italy) Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, Hertfordshire Law School (UnitedKingdom) – Convener of the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law Ferdinando Menga, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Department of Law, Caserta (Italy) ‍11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break Andrea Porciello, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Department of Law, Economics and Sociology (Italy) Ozlem Ulgen, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) – Chair of the ESIL Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break 15:00 - 16:45 PANEL 1 Chair: Grazia Vitale, University of Messina, Department of Law (Italy)‍ Louis J. Kotzé, North-West University (South Africa); University of Lincoln (UK); Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam (Germany) Sam Adelman, University of Warwick (UK); Nelson Mandela University (South Africa); North-West University (South Africa) ‍‍ Environmental Law and the Unsustainability of Sustainable Development: A Tale of Disenchantment and of Hope Jolein Holtz, Leiden University, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (The Netherlands) An (Onto)logical Solution to the Ecological Crises: Bringing Collective Rights to Bear on the Anthropocene Moritz Caspar Vinken, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany) Fighting Fire with Fire? The Principle of Sustainable Development: Rooting Anthropocentrism and Economic Liberalism firmly within Climate Change Governance 16:45 - 18:45 PANEL 2 Chair: Ferdinando Menga, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Department of Law, Caserta (Italy) Mihika Poddar, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) & West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences - NUJS (India) Re-imagining Human Rights: Forging Legal Tools to Address the Climate Crisis Guglielmo Ciaccio, University of Pisa (Italy) Humanity and Nature. From a Relationship of Domination to a Relationship of Co-Existence and Co-Essentiality. Francesca Di Pietro, University of Messina (Italy) The Role of Individual in the Anthropocene 20:00 – Conference Dinner for Chairs and Speakers July 1, 2022 Registration Link: Webinar Registration - Zoom: https://wvu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_SCjmSfleTqmyxOJp\_9cK1A ‍ 9:00 - 11:00 PANEL 3 Chair: Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, Hertfordshire Law School (UnitedKingdom) Klaus Geiselhart, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Geography (Germany) What is Libertarian Extremism? Claudia Atzeni, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro (Italy) Liberalism, Ecology, and the Process of European Integration. Michael Ioannidis, European Central Bank and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (Germany) Ecology and (Liberal) Monetary Policy Franz Gatzweiler, Urban Health and Wellbeing: a Systems Approach (ISC-IAP-ISUH), International Science Council (ISC), Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Xiamen, China) Institutional and Complexity Perspectives on the Transformation Challenge towards Ecological Civilization 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 13:15 PANEL 4 Chair: Martin Svec, Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (UK) Michael Kalis, IKEM – Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (Germany); University of Greifswald – IFZO Interdisciplinary Research Centre for the Baltic Sea Region (Germany) Intergenerational Equity or Intertemporal Rights? – Timing Climate Justice in Liberal Societies Erika La Fauci, University of Messina (Italy) Environmental Duties and Environmental Rights as Parts of a Unitary Concept: Present Generations Responsibility Towards Future Generations Francesco D’Urso, – Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa – Napoli (Italy) Ethics, Rights and Future Generations: the Difficult Combination of Environmental Protection and Individual Freedom. 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break 15:00 - 16:45 PANEL 5 Chair: Andrea Porciello, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Department of Law, Economics and Sociology (Italy) Martin Svec, Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (UK) Energy Intensive Companies and Interests of Current and Future Generations Nazlicicek Semercioglu, Bocconi University (Italy); University of Istanbul (Turkey) Rights of Nature: Multipliers or Reducers of Environmental Duties? Louisa Ashley, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Law School (UK) Diana María Rodríguez-Herrera, Technological University of Pereira (Colombia) Seed Saving and Seed Sharing: Countermapping a Liminal Legal Space to Support the Rights of Future Generations 16:45 - 17:15 Coffee Break 17:30 - 19:00 PANEL 6 Chair: Marcella Di Stefano, University of Messina, Department of Law (Italy) Michele Crisafulli, University of Messina (Italy) Is There a Right to Develop as Well as a Right to Undevelop?‍ Daria Boklan, HSE University Aleksandr Solntsev, RUDN University Ecocentrism Vs Liberal Anthropocentrism: Will “Greening” of Human Rights and Free Trade under International Law contribute to environmental protection? Giuseppe Poderati, Wuhan University, Research Institute of Environmental Law (China) and University of Palermo (Italy) Giving Rights to Nature in the Current Anthropocene Era: the Panama Case. Inês Lameiras Azevedo, European University Institute in Florence, Law Department (Italy) Growth in the Anthropocene? The Circular Economy as a Possible Answer July 2, 2022 Registration Link: Webinar Registration - Zoom: https://wvu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_oM8HxxJrSIiu\_EPnJQWoJQ ‍ 9:00 - 11:00 PANEL 7 Chair: Martin Svec, Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (UK) Giovanni Bombelli, Catholic University of Milan (Italy) Liberalism, Ecology, Anthropocene: Some Methodological Distinctions Song Tian, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Center for Humanities, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Shenzhen, China) The Preconditions of a Civilization and the Self-restrain to Development in the Anthropocene Jinfeng Zhou, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation About Liberalism and Ecology in the Anthropocene: Reflections from Eastern Civilization—A New Era of Civilization Must be Started Jean-Yves Heurtebise, Fujen Catholic University, Taiwan; CEFC (French Research Center on Contemporary China), Taiwan Illiberalism & Misanthropocene 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:30 PANEL 8 Chair: Daria Boklan, HSE University Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Qatar University, Center for Law and Development (Doha, Qatar) and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (UK) Blockchain, Climate Damage, and Death: Policy Interventions to Reduce the Carbon Emissions, Mortality, and Net-Zero Implications of Non-Fungible Tokens and Bitcoin Qingxiu Bu, University of Sussex (United Kingdom) Towards an ESG-Driven Standard in Global Biodiversity Governance: Is Corporate Mandatory Due Diligence a cure in Supply Chains? Md. Abdul Alim, University of Rajshahi Department of Law (Bangladesh) Legal Aspects of Recycling Responsibilities for E-waste Especially Photovoltaic Waste 12:30 - 13:30 PANEL 9 Chair: Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, Hertfordshire Law School (United Kingdom)‍ Bryan Druzin, Chinese University of Hong Kong A World Unravelling: Can Multilateral Environmental Governance be sustained in the Anthropocene? Seyed Hossein Mirjafari, Islamic Azad University of Hamadan (Iran); Samira Rezaei Gilaneh, Parand Islamic Azad University (Iran) A Study of the Relationship between Neoliberalism and the Second Generation of Human Rights‍ CONFERENCE CHAIRS AND COORDINATORS Paolo Farah West Virginia University, Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics (USA) & gLAWcal (UK) – Member of the Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) ‍ Alessio Lo Giudice University of Messina, Department of Law (Italy) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Chamu Kuppuswamy (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Martin Svec (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), Ozlem Ulgen (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom), Carmela Panella (University of Messina, Italy) Daria Boklan (HSE University) CO-ORGANIZERS The European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on International Environmental Law, University of Messina, Department of Law (Italy), West Virginia University, Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics and the WVU Eberly College Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative on Global Challenges and Local Response Initiatives (USA) have jointly organized an interdisciplinary International Conference on “Liberalism and Ecology in the Anthropocene ” to be held at the University of Messina, Italy 30 June –2 July 2022. This event is also supported by the ESIL Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy and the Italian Society of Philosophy of Law (SIFD).