Call for Papers: Media and Climate Change

Papers are welcomed for a special issue of the journal Environmental Communication: A Journal of Culture and Nature (Official Journal of IECA) to be published in March 2014 on the topic of Media Research on Climate Change. Acknowledging the vast amount of academic research done over the past decade on the media coverage of climate… Continue reading Call for Papers: Media and Climate Change

Call for Papers: Geography and Art

The International Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Geography: Aesthetics and Practices of Spatial Knowledges taking place at the University of Lyon, France from February 11-13, 2013 is welcoming proposals till the 30th of October. The conference is at the crossroads of contemporary geography and art. With the latest developments in how space, place and environment… Continue reading Call for Papers: Geography and Art

Call for Papers: Sustainability and Empowerment

The organizing committee of the International Graduate Conference in Hamburg, Germany, taking place from 22nd till 25th of November, are inviting graduate and PhD students to send in papers on the relationship between sustainability and empowerment, till the 15th of October. The theme of the conference is A survey on Latin-American perspectives after Rio+20, focusing… Continue reading Call for Papers: Sustainability and Empowerment

Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference

The Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center are organizing a conference on Feminism, Science & Materialism, taking place at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, from Feburary 14-15, 2013. The conference will focus on looking with feminist perspectives on the… Continue reading Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference

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… Continue reading Conference: Probing the Skin

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

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,… Continue reading Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes

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… Continue reading Ecocultures 2012: Transitions to Sustainability

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… Continue reading Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART ’12

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