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...
Call for Applications Urban Cultures of Sustainability: International Graduate and Doctoral Student Workshop To be held in collaboration with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, 11–14 July 2016 This five-day intensive workshop is open to...
Call for Proposals Under Western Skies 2016 Water: Events, Trends, Analysis September 27-30, 2016 Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, CANADA Under Western Skies (UWS) is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference series on the environment. The fourth conference organizers invite prospective researchers, authors, artists, and presenters to consider submitting proposals for oral...
Transformations of the Earth: International Graduate Student Workshop in Environmental History Renmin University of China, Beijing 21-23 May 2016 Co-Sponsored by the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany This conference is open to advanced graduate...
Activism, Art and Atolls: Communicating the Oceanic Anthropocene Public lecture and panel forum Keynote speaker: Dr Jennifer Newell, American Museum of Natural History 3 December, 2015. 18:00–19:30 Alter Seminarraum, Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 Munich. ...
Two Research Fellow positions are available at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation for postdoctoral scholars to work with Professor Emma Kowal. Positions are at Level A/B and are two years with a possible extension of 1-2 years. Positions are based at Deakin...