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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Call for Papers – Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery, 2017 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference

June 20 - 24, 2017 at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan Conference website: http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu   In Rust: The Longest War, Jonathan Waldman claims that, for those who “yield to rust, find beauty in rust, capitalize on rust, raise awareness of rust, and teach about rust, work is riddled with scams, lawsuits, turf... More

Friday, September 16, 2016

Resilience in a Multispecies World: The 2017 John Douglas Taylor Conference

April 21-23 2017 McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario In 1973, forest ecologist C.S. Holling introduced the concept of resilience to describe the ability of an ecological system to withstand, absorb or fortify against disturbances in a way that still maintains its basic structures. In recent years the concept of resilience has been extrapolated... More

Friday, September 16, 2016

Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting – Data Infrastructures, Nature, and Politics

Organizers: Eric Nost (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Jenny Goldstein (Cornell University) Discussant: Luke Bergmann (University of Washington) Date and location: April 5-7 2017, Boston, MA Conservationists around the world are turning to new data collection, modeling, and visualization software they believe may help “save the planet”. For... More

Monday, July 18, 2016

Call for Papers – The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures

We invite presentations of all kinds on the theme of “The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures” for an online, nearly carbon-neutral conference (described below) that will take place from October 24 to November 14, 2016. Coordinated by UC Santa Barbara, this conference is part of a series of events on “Climate... More

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Mosaic: Call for Submissions

Within the biological-ecological sciences from which the term Anthropocene emerged, “scale” has a longer history and broader usage than it does within the now-proliferating philosophical, critical, theoretical, and ethical discourses that address environmentalism, climate change, and the Anthropocene’s status as a sixth major extinction... More

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