Category: Academic Research

This Week: Live Streams from Conference on Cultural Sustainability

This week, live streams will be available from the Conference Culture(s) in Sustainable Futures – theories, policies, practices. This big conference on Cultural Sustainability  will take place from 6-8 of May, 2015 in Helsinki (cf. related posts on our homepage). To watch the streams, go to http://videonet.fi/culturalsustainability/live/. For the program of the streamed plenary sessions,… Continue reading This Week: Live Streams from Conference on Cultural Sustainability

World Conference on Ecological Restoration

6th World Conference on Ecological Restoration – Towards Resilient Ecosystems: Restoring the Urban, the Rural and the Wild Call for Symposia, Workshops & Training Courses Proposals are now invited for symposia, workshops and training courses for the 6th World Conference on Ecological Restoration. The deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday 12th December 2014, however… Continue reading World Conference on Ecological Restoration

Exploring Environmental Photography

October 1–3, 2014 Universität Bern Institut für Kunstgeschichte Hauptgebäude, Hochschulstrasse 4 Program Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Room 220 (2nd Floor West) 18.15-19.30 Evening Lecture (in German) God’s Own Junkyard. Architektur, Fotografie und Gemeinschaft Hubert Locher, Philipps-Universität Marburg Introduction: Peter Schneemann Thursday, October 2, 2014 Room 331 (3rd Floor West) 10.00-10.30 Welcome and Introduction: Sonja Feßel,… Continue reading Exploring Environmental Photography

Ecological Collapse: art, research, activism – how to shape alliances

Debate at Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway, Thursday September 25th 2014, 17:00 What role does art have in today’s communication of research? Concerned Artists Norway and think tank Tau invite to conversation and debate: Ecological collapse: Art, research and activism – how to create alliances? Scientists, artists and activists have in common to ask questions, to see… Continue reading Ecological Collapse: art, research, activism – how to shape alliances

Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics

Symposium + Film Series September 19–21, 2014, New York A three-day event gathering together artists, scholars and curators examining the mediated and aesthetic dimensions of human-made infrastructures that shape almost every aspect of modern life.  Exploring data centers, oil pipelines, securitized border zones, waste treatment plants and more, 12 presentations and 17 films ask the… Continue reading Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics

Congress: Cities, Culture and Sustainability

International City Link Congress Cities, Culture and Sustainability September 12th 2014 in Hamburg / Germany. In a changing world of work and confronted with the consequences of climate and demographic changes, policies that strengthen social coherence are needed. On the background of these changes self-organised initiatives are emerging in many cities that already implement sustainable policies on a project level. Within the frame… Continue reading Congress: Cities, Culture and Sustainability

Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice

Repost. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23- 27, 2015 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE (INCLUDING SUBMISSIONS PAGE) WILL BE LIVE IN SEPTEMBER, 2014: www.uidaho.edu/asle   In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella’s unnamed, unpleasant… Continue reading Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice

ARTEMOCC 2015 : 1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference

26-27 March, 2015 – Nancy (France) “Rethinking Paths on Creativity and Sustainability” UPDATE: Deadline extended to November 30th 2014! ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference seeks to rethink paths on creativity to move organizations towards sustainability. The objective of this international conference is to bring together academics, managers, professionals and doctoral students in areas such as engineering, arts… Continue reading ARTEMOCC 2015 : 1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference