Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversation ALECC Biennial Conference — Call for Papers, Panels, and Other Presentations June 15-18, 2016, Queen’s University, Kingston ON Deadline: September 1st, 2015 What makes an environmental crisis common or uncommon? How do our understandings of environments depend on causes—both as ideas of causality...
Land Dialogues Conference: Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land Link: http://landdialogues.com/ | #landdialogues Dates: 14th and 15th of April 2016 at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia About The Call for Papers for the inaugural Land Dialogues Conference: Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land is now open. The Land...
Symposium call for papers Foreign Bodies, Intimate Ecologies: Transformations in Environmental History 11-13 February, 2016 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia foreignbodiesintimateecologies.net | #FBIE2016 Environmental history has experienced significant transformations in recent years, driven by a new sense of urgency created by contemporary environmental crises and greater degrees of interdisciplinary engagement. This international...
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Innovative Training Network - ITN) Early Stage Researcher (PhD) in Environmental Humanities Faculty of Arts / School of English Fixed term until 30 September 2018 2 posts available from 1 October 2015, start date to be no later than 1 January 2016 The University of Leeds is...
Susanna Lidström The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall...
An exciting opportunity for Postgrads - December 11-12 Stockholm Sweden Environmental Utopias and Dystopias as Forms of Resistance, Oppression and Liberation 11-12 December 2015, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Key-note speaker: Reader in English Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey.Commentator: Professor Sverker Sörlin, KTH, Royal Institute of...
From April 15-23, 2016, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin will host the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue – the second educational event within the Anthropocene Curriculum, initiated by HKW in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. The...
The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture is pleased to announce additional details and opportunities regarding its 10th Anniversary Conference with the theme “Religion, Science and the Future.” Travel Assistance Awards (students and international scholars are especially encouraged to apply by 15...
New museum work in repairing past injustices http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/book-tells-of-19th-century-bodysnatching-and-skull-collecting-20150619-ghr9e8.html Book launch: The Hanged Man and the Body Thief. Mon 29 June at 6:30pm.Readings Lygon St, Carlton. Alexandra Roginski's book will be launched by Tom Griffiths For details of the book: http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/hmbt-9781922235664.html...
The Anthropocene Lyric is an interdisciplinary extension to studies of space and place. Responding to the cultural and environmental crises the term 'Anthropocene' shoulders, the book's purpose is to pose a single question: how to rethink our place on this planet through poetry. Tom Bristow takes...