CFP Cultures of Plate Tectonics A special issue Eds. Adam Bobbette, Zeynep Oğuz The adoption of plate tectonics in the 1960s as scientific orthodoxy was one of the most profound scientific revolutions of the 20th century. It transformed the status quo understanding of the earth system, its history, and evolution. By combining existing explanations...
Call for papers Restoring Forests in Times of Contagion We are seeking papers on the history and policy of tree planting to restore Australian and New Zealand forests and landscapes. They will be published on-line concurrently as a collection in October 2020 to mark John Evelyn’s birth...
Kerb Journal of Landscape Architecture is now open for submission of abstracts until 22nd of April. This year our theme is: Decentre: Designing for coexistence in a time of crisis. This global ecological and climatic crisis has been created by humans. In this crisis we encounter our ecological entanglement and...
CFP "Performing Plants" Editors Prudence Gibson and Catriona Sandilands This issue of Performance Philosophy is dedicated to redefining the way plant qualities are understood and valued. It celebrates and interrogates the agency, in/inter-dependence and performing subjectivities of plants. We ask: what if plants have a unique set...
Our Sentimental Natures: environmental commitments, media and feeling Day colloquium at Macquarie University, Sydney NSW, Friday May 8th, 2020 Call for provocations and papers Deadline for abstracts: Monday Feb 17th 2020 This colloquium will consider the way photography, comics, visual art, film and video, social media, the press and...
E-Rea Special Issue of June 2021 Guest editors: Sylvie Nail & Camille Manfredi In an article dated 2006, climate scientists advocated more research into: “the social and cultural processes of speaking about climate, of the formation and usage of lay knowledge, of the formation and social functioning of...
Please join us for the symposium ‘In the Making: On Poetry and Poetics’ on Friday, 29 November 2019, from 9.30am to 4pm in E011 A3, Arts Lecture Theatre 3. The event is free and open to the general public. Please send an abstract of 250 words...
SENSE - BIOTOPIA FESTIVAL in MUNICH OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION BIOTOPIA is seeking proposals from scientists, artists, performers and designers for installations, workshops, public experiments, immersive experiences, performances and participatory formats for our third BIOTOPIA Festival, dedicated in 2020 to the exploration of the senses of humans,...
Hosted by China Australia Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of South Australia, this one day and a half seminar and linked publication will be focused on the problem of opacity, or a lack of transparency and traceability in everyday products in today’s global...
RELEVANCE 60th Annual Conference of the Estonian National Museum 5.-7. May 2020 in Tartu, Estonia Organiser: Estonian National Museum Keynotes: Jette Sandahl (Denmark), Nancy Proctor (USA) Conference Webpage: http://enmconferences.ee/relevance-2020 A good museum is one which I come out feeling better than when I went in. Kenneth Hudson This quote from Kenneth Hudson sets...