A state of shock is something that happens to us not only when something bad happens. It's what happens to us when we lose our narrative, when we lose our story, when we become disoriented. - Naomi Klein Call for Stories 27-29 October 2016: Stockholm, Sweden The KTH...
Autumn Mushroom Foray 14-18 September 2016 – Switzerland – The five-day workshop delves deep into the ecological and cultural dimensions of fungi, situated within the mushroom-loving land of Switzerland. The workshop includes: Interactive fungus ecology & identification sessions Exciting field forays in the Swiss Jura forests with fungus experts (foray travel...
University of Pennsylvania, USA October 20-22, 2016 Conference website The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce Timescales, an interdisciplinary environmental humanities conference to be held on October 20-22, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania. Timescales explores the question of temporality in ecological crisis. The global threat...
Feeding the Insatiable - a creative summit November 9-11, 2016 Venue: Schumacher College, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EA, UK DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS 22.00 GMT May 8, 2016 Schumacher College, RegenSW and the art.earth network invite you to submit a proposal for participation to the forthcoming summit Feeding the Insatiable...
The Land Dialogues Conference will take place on the 13th, 14th and 15th of April 2016 at Charles Sturt University on it’s Wagga Wagga Campus. The conference will be spread across the School of Communication and Creative Industries facilities (Building 21). [ Get Tickets ] Conference includes...
CFP CLOSES 1 March We welcome papers dealing with climate change from all fields of the humanities, as well as the social sciences. As our goal is to encourage the cross pollination of ideas across a broad range of disciplines on what may well be the...
Symposium: Language, Landscape and the Sublime 29/06/2016 - 30/06/2016 This two-day symposium draws together artists and thinkers from a wide range of disciplines to explore ways in which landscape –– and the ways we represent it –– connects deeply to our lives and underpins our relationship to...
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...