University of Pennsylvania, USA October 20-22, 2016 Conference website The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce Timescales, an interdisciplinary environmental humanities conference to be held on October 20-22, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania. Timescales explores the question of temporality in ecological crisis. The global threat...
Feeding the Insatiable - a creative summit November 9-11, 2016 Venue: Schumacher College, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT May 8, 2016 Schumacher College, RegenSW and the art.earth network invite you to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming summit Feeding the Insatiable...
The Land Dialogues Conference will take place on the 13th, 14th and 15th of April 2016 at Charles Sturt University on it’s Wagga Wagga Campus. The conference will be spread across the School of Communication and Creative Industries facilities (Building 21). [ Get Tickets ] Conference includes...
CFP CLOSES 1 March We welcome papers dealing with climate change from all fields of the humanities, as well as the social sciences. As our goal is to encourage the cross pollination of ideas across a broad range of disciplines on what may well be the...
ANDREW DENTON CRUDE/FLIGHT Crude, an essayist film that attempts to see and hear some of the elusive signs of anthropogenic climate change in order to make what is invisible, visible, to evoke contemplations on the subject of ecological crisis, through affective cinematic devices. Crude is accompanied by Flight, a series...
Symposium: Language, Landscape and the Sublime 29/06/2016 - 30/06/2016 This two-day symposium draws together artists and thinkers from a wide range of disciplines to explore ways in which landscape –– and the ways we represent it –– connects deeply to our lives and underpins our relationship to...
9-5pm, 23rd February 2016 Evolution House, University of Edinburgh Organised by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network There is a one in 59,000 chance – give or take shifting orbital trajectories – that asteroid 2015PU228 will collide with the Earth in the year 2081. Heavy and fast-moving, PU228 was...
Dear friends and colleagues, We've received a lot of interest in the PSi #22: ‘Performance Climates’ Call for Papers (below), and many proposals are rolling in that interpret the theme in provocative and inventive ways. We’re excited to announce that in addition to the great speaker line-up,...
We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled “Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis,” that will treat cultural production and practices related to “alternatives”—both critical and creative, descriptive and imaginative—that challenge the unjust and unsustainable systems that dominate at present. Though...
The World Forest History series, published by the ANU Press, is happy to announce the publication of Brett Bennett's and Fred Kruger's new book, Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa: History, Science and Policy. The book is available free online and through a print-on-demand...