CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023
4 p.m.
CONTEMPORARY CLIMATE ART EXHIBITION
5:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Marisa Cianciarulo, Interim Dean of Fowler School of Law, and Doy and Dee Henley Chair in Law
Dr. Jennifer Keene, Dean of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION: CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS IN ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Dr. John Hall, Professor, and Director of the International Law Program, at Chapman University Fowler School of Law
Rebeca Méndez, Artist, designer, and tenured professor at UCLA, Design Media Arts; and Founder and director of the CounterForce Lab
Stacey Otte-Demangate, Executive Director, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature
Dr. Mika Tosca, Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Moderator: Dr. Jamie Larkin, Assistant Professor, Creative and Cultural Industries, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
RECEPTION
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023
9:30 a.m.
CHECK-IN
10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
INTRODUCTION AND OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Norma Bouchard, Executive Vice President, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Chapman University
Marisa Cianciarulo, Interim Dean of Fowler School of Law, and Doy and Dee Henley Chair in Law
Deepa Badrinarayana, Professor of Law, Chapman University Fowler School of Law
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
PANEL 1: CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS IN LAW AND POLICY
Randall Abate, Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies, Law Professor at George Washington University Law School
Dr. Lisa Benjamin, Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark School of Law
Rebecca Bratspies, Professor at CUNY School of Law, and Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform
Richard Wallsgrove, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Environmental Law Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Moderator: Dr. David Shafie, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. LUNCH
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
PANEL 2: CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS IN LOCAL INITIATIVES
Dr. Menas Kafatos, Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics at Chapman University and the Director of the Chapman University Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO)
Heather Kryczka, Staff Attorney at Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Megan Penn, Orange Home Grown
Dr. Fred Smoller, Associate Professor, Chapman University Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Moderator: Ernesto Hernandez, Professor of Law, Chapman University Fowler School of Law
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
2:45 p.m. - 4 p.m.
PANEL 3: CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS IN SCIENCE, BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Mike Brown, Founder and CEO of Impact Grove Corporation
Dr. Joshua Fisher, Chapman University Presidential Fellow of Ecosystem Science in Schmid College of Science and Technology
Dr. Matthew Liao, Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, Director of Center for Bioethics, and Affiliated Professor, Department of Philosophy, New York University
Mark McDaniels, Vice President of Renewables and Storage for Vistra Corporation
Moderator: Dr. Tom C. Piechota, Professor, Assistant Director of the Grand Challenges Initiative, Water Resources, Hydrology, Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Urban Hydrology, Assistant Director, Grand Challenges Initiative at Chapman University
4 p.m.
CONFERENCE CONCLUDES
