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...
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...
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language Issue: Ecotones as Contact Zones: Reading Landscape Intersections Submissions due: 18 November 2015 The Summer 2015/16 issue of Landscapes seeks critical essays, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography and artwork of a broadly interdisciplinary nature that...
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Deadline: November 29, 2015 Schumacher College and The Sharpham Trust invite you to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming symposium Language, Landscape and the Sublime, to be held June 29/30, 2016. This event is part of Schumacher College’s Ecological Arts programme. More...
The peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its special issue: Animal Alterity, Spring 2016. Deadline is January 15. Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that critically examine the concepts of otherness and alterity....
Land Dialogues Conference: Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land Link: http://landdialogues.com/ | #landdialogues 14th and 15th of April 2016 at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia ***** Details The Call for Papers for the inaugural Land Dialogues Conference: Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land is now open. The Land Dialogues...
Power and conflict are at the core of socio-environmental change, but existing knowledge and higher education structures are ill-equipped to address them. Most of socially-relevant environmental research takes place within isolated disciplinary silos and has a disciplinary orientation. Questions are framed in relation to scholarly...