Thinking and Enacting Justice in a Multispecies World June 12 – 20 2019 The University of Sydney In June 2019, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Environment Institute will host a series of four international symposia to work...
Mineral transformation and resource extraction generate some of the most complex environmental, social and economic problems facing humankind and the planet today. In one way or another, resource extraction and mineral transformation are central to human existence. Like all biological organisms, we are mineral and matter...
CFP: Creaturely Ethics and Poetics Date: June 27-29, 2019 Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Chief Convenor: Victor J Krawczyk Website: https://www.creaturelyethicsconferencestream.com/ The domination-exploitation of human beings begins with animals, wild beasts and cattle; the humans associated with these inaugurated an experience that would turn back against them: killings,...
The 7th Biennial Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture Conference Hosted by University of New England, Armidale February 13-15, 2019. The 2019 ASLEC-ANZ Conference theme is Grounding Story. We seek submissions from scholars, artists, writers and activists that respond to the material and ideological implications of environmental...
Call for Paper AAS2018 Life in an Age of Death, 4 - 7 December, 2018 James Cook University, Cairns https://www.aasconf.org/2018/ The deadline for submissions is July 16. Sea theory, atmospheres, and liminality of lives This panel will explore the development of the "ocean turn" and the rise of "critical ocean studies"...
The 2019 Biennial ASLEC-ANZ Conference theme is Grounding Story. We seek submissions that respond to the material and ideological implications of environmental storytelling in either a speculative or a critical mode.[i] On one hand, we are concerned with situated and embodied narratives that can cultivate cosmopolitical worlds and...
Please consider submitting a proposal for a panel or workshop for the 2019 ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) conference at the University of California at Davis. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to: • reckoning with “paradise” in the face...
Beyond Survival: Austerity, precarity, resilience Symposium at the University of Tasmania October 23 - 24, 2018 Inquiries to Naomi Milthorpe at naomi.milthorpe@utas.edu.au. In periods of extended crisis, individual and collective goals orient towards concepts of “survival”. Acceptable definitions of survival are contested and the conditions for survival are vulnerable to exploitation...
Eating the Anthropocene: What and how should we eat in a climate changing world? Keynote speaker: Mike Goodman (University of Reading) April 26-27, 2018 Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University Further information: https://groundworkgeop.wordpress.com/blog The meatification, standardisation, and globalisation of diets has contributed to food systems and cultures that both...
Call for Papers: First Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS) October 8-9, 2018 Academic Center for Natural Sciences, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia The interest in interdisciplinary cooperation between humanities, arts and social sciences in the study of environment has been constantly rising all over...