10 April, 2015 Massey University, Manawatu Campus Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand Keynote: Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths College, University of London) Nature is one of those ever-present yet somewhat uncomfortable words that structure our everyday lives. In the twenty-first century it is becoming increasingly apparent that whether we consciously address it...
Into the Woods: An ‘Emotions and Environment’ Symposium July 22, 2015, The University of Melbourne Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Stephen Knight, The University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Linda Williams, RMIT University Forests, and the stories we tell about them, often belong to our earliest memories, regardless of the...
Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG) Conference 2015 Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE) The University of Melbourne, July 12-15, 2015 The call for papers is now open. We want to hear from scholars, academics, activists and thinkers. Abstracts of 250...
Deadline for Submissions is December 7. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/ Submissions information and online form: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/submitting-a-proposal.html In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella’s unnamed, unpleasant hero rails against capitalist industry, imperialist architecture and an emerging...
28 June-1 July 2015, Durham University Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor David Held (Durham University) Professor Wendy Brown (UC, Berkeley) Professor Claire Colebrook (Penn State) Professor Walter Kälin (University of Bern) Conference website: http://dogweb.dur.ac.uk/costconference New submission deadline: 12 December 2014 Submission Information: Submit paper session proposals to climate.migration@durham.ac.uk with the subject line ‘Durham Conference’. Conference...
6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG): July 12-15, 2015. Convened by the Australian Centre and the Human Rights & Animal Ethics Research Network (HRAE), University of Melbourne. Call for Papers Open until Monday November 17 – please share! Download the pdf here The human/nonhuman animal relationship is continually...
An international conference to be held in Beijing, at Renmin University of China, 28-31 May 2014 Co-Sponsored by the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Nuclear power plants, bullet trains, factory farms, and ancient rice paddies...