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,...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Thursday, June 4 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm: Council Meeting Room, Wagga Wagga City Council cnr Baylis and Morrow Streets, Wagga Wagga. Are you wanting to learning more about climate change? Wanting to find out what it means for our region (Riverina)? Or have you got a...