The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) and the Bateson Idea Group (BIG), a new organization exploring Gregory Bateson’s “pattern that connects,” have joined to hold a conference on the relations among ideas as seen from multiple perspectives. In organizing this conference they seek to find a balance between the spontaneous and the planned. They intend… Continue reading An Ecology of Ideas Conference – July 9-13, 2012 (USA)
Category: Conferences
The Cultural History of Climate Change
Call for papers Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 27 – 28 August, 2012 Historians since Herodotus have argued that climates shape cultures. We can no longer ignore the fact that cultures also shape climates. Today’s climate is increasingly a material effect of the history of industrialisation. The climate of the coming centuries will be… Continue reading The Cultural History of Climate Change
Atmospheres of Protest
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art Central European University Budapest (Hungary) – 11 May 2012 The upsurge of new popular movements from Egypt to Greece and Bucharest to New York has engendered an atmosphere of defiance and social creativity that has captured the global imagination. Beyond the ebb and flow of individual protest movements, this… Continue reading Atmospheres of Protest
Ecocultures 2012 Conference
The Ecocultures 2012 conference is taking place on April 17th and 18th at the University of Essex (Colchester Campus) in the UK. For the final program and more information, please visit this webpage: http://www.ecocultures.org/2012/04/ecocultures-2012-final-programme/
Animism – Conference at the „Haus der Kulturen der Welt“
Berlin 16th and 17th of March 2012 starting at 14:00 Towards the end of the 19th century, Animism was perceived as a collection of misguided notions with which the “primitive consciousness” populated the cosmos with souls and spirits. Those who were modern left Animism behind them and divided the world into body and soul, into… Continue reading Animism – Conference at the „Haus der Kulturen der Welt“
ecoartscotland in Tent at ECA – 6-10 March
Reposted from eco/art/scot/land ecoartscotland will be in residence in the Tent space at Edinburgh College of Art, during the week 6-10 March 2012. Art, Space & Nature students and staff have worked with ecoartscotland to develop a programme of discussions and events during the week:
Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose
Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), April 30 – May 1, 2012 This event will address the question “How can we tangibly change the way we run our theaters to ensure we survive and have a significant positive impact on our environment and community?” Presenting organizations include: Broadway Green Alliance (New York): helped convert 97% of Broadway’s marquees… Continue reading Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose
2012 iLAND Symposium
New-York, USA, March 23-24, 2012 Wollman Hall at The New School | 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor Tickets: $5 – $25 (Sliding Scale) The 2012 iLAND Symposium will be entitled: Moving Into the Out There: Indeterminacy and Improvisation in Performance and Environmental Practice. This event is an open forum for exploring new methods of… Continue reading 2012 iLAND Symposium
Some of the videos from the Radius of Art conference
This is a selection of videos focusing on the conference introduction and on the thematic window “Art toward Cultures of Sustainability” at the Radius of Art conference (Berlin, Feb. 8-9 2012). This specific thematic window was organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation in collaboration with Cultura21.
The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe
Conference at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (UK), April 20-22, 2012 The history of transatlantic slavery is one of the most active and fruitful fields of historical research worldwide. As scholarship in this field is increasingly global, it opens up unique possibilities for international collaboration. More particularly, the most recent research which looks beyond the… Continue reading The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe
