Tag Archives: call for papers

Conference: Probing the Skin

Jena 24th to 26th of April 2013 From April the 24th to April the 26th 2013 the conference “Probing the Skin: Cultural representations of Our Contact Zone” takes place at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. The organizers Prof. Caroline Rosenthal and Prof. Dirk Vanderbeke aks for submission of papers including artistic reflections of skin related themes [...]

Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America

Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 10-13, 2012 Building on the success of Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America in October 2010, Under Western Skies 2 welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address the [...]

Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes

    May 25th – 26th 2012 Derby, UK This conference seeks exciting disciplinary and transdisciplinary proposals from scholars working in fields such as cultural studies, literary studies, cultural politics/history, creative writing, film and media studies, Area Studies, photography, fine art, interested in examining the different ways in which human beings respond and relate to, [...]

Ecocultures 2012: Transitions to Sustainability

Essex 17th – 18th of April 2012 The conference Ecocultures 2012 takes place at the University of Essex from the 17th to the 18th of April. The aim of Ecocultures 2012 is to show, how communities can adapt successfully to social-ecological change and thus reach the maintenance of resilience and the enhancement of wellbeing. Ecocultures [...]

Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART ’12

Turkey From the 11th to 14th of April 2012 the Contemporary Art Conference takes place in Istanbul, Turkey. It is open to the approaches of institutions and history of contemporary art as well as to styles generated by various international artists with different tendencies. Contemporary art has contrary characteristics and constantly renews itself and its [...]

Call for Papers: The International Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change

      USA September 13-15 2012 The Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change is an event of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder, that takes place from the 13th to the 15th of September 2012. Which obstacles and opportunities are U.S. climate policymakers and scientists confronted with? Current [...]

Sociology of the Arts – Artistic Practices

Vienna 5th to 8th of September 2012 Call for Papers: The 7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, which is part of the European Sociological Association (ESA), takes place from the 5th to the 8th of September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be organised by the Institute for Music Sociology [...]

Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium on Performance & Ecology

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA May 31-June 3, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS From the 31st of May until the 3rd of June 2012 the Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Performance and Ecology takes place in Pittsburgh. Artists, scholars and activists are invited to share their work, ideas and passions with the attenders [...]

Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory

7th-9th December, 2011; Edinburgh „What contribution can sensorially-engaged Humanities make to environmental thinking and action?“ The conference „Sensory Worlds“ wants to examine the multi-sensory and will reflect upon the historical, contemporary and possible future relations between the senses (from balance to taste to the haptic and beyond). It aims to allow generously for both formal [...]