Sustainable Living Festival

Febuary 8th – 23rd, 2014. The Sustainable Living Festival raises awareness and provides tools for change by showcasing leading solutions to the ecological and social challenges we face. The Sustainable Living Festival aims to inspire and empower everyday Australians to accelerate the uptake of sustainable living. The Festival attracts over 150,000 visits annually and engages… Continue reading Sustainable Living Festival

EARTHING THE WORLD: CREATIVE ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTS

Edith Cowan University Western Australia, on Feb. 19th, 2014.   The aim of this Colloquium is to establish a dialogue between creative arts and critical studies researchers, scholars and students, around the idea of working with nature, as proposed by Warwick Mules in his book, With Nature, to be launched at the colloquium. Working with… Continue reading EARTHING THE WORLD: CREATIVE ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTS

Book Publication: Living Pathways: Meditations on sustainable cultures and cosmologies in Asia

Globalisation and technological progress have ushered us into a new era of development. Never before has the promise of the ‘Good Life’ in a hedonistic, consumerist utopia, been within reach for so many. Yet a significant portion of humanity is still unable to meet their basic needs. These trends are unsustainable, and beg the question:… Continue reading Book Publication: Living Pathways: Meditations on sustainable cultures and cosmologies in Asia

ESA Arts 2014. Arts and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue

Update: Deadline extended to March 15th, 2014 The 8th midterm Conference of the European Research Network Sociology of the Arts will take place at „Babes-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca from 4 to 6 September 2014, and will be conducted in English. The general theme of the conference is Art and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Research… Continue reading ESA Arts 2014. Arts and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue

The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR)

The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research will take place in Hildesheim, Germany, from September 9th to 12th, and in Berlin, from September 12th to 13th, 2014. ICCPR2014 aims to provide a space for exploring cultural policies, their meanings, roles and impact in an interdisciplinary and international environment. This exploration is not restricted to… Continue reading The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR)

The Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity

Fom September 2nd to 6th 2014, the 4th International Degrowth Conference will take place in Leipzig, Germany. Its aim is to seek for alternate models of society and economy, beyond a growth paradigm that leads from crisis to crisis. Many analyses from various scientific disciplines imply that a growth-based economic and social system cannot have… Continue reading The Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity