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
Category: Academic Research
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
Cartographies Of Hope: Change Narratives
Gallery DOX – Prague – Nov. 2012 to Feb. 2013 “In the last few years we have witnessed how the corrosion of the three main modes of social imaginary that defined modernity – the market economy, the public sphere, and the self-government of citizens – has reached a critical point. As a result, the increasing… Continue reading Cartographies Of Hope: Change Narratives
Balance-Unbalance 2013
Balance-Unbalance is an International Conference designed to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities. The organizers are thoroughly looking forward to hosting artists, scientists, economists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, engineers and policy experts from across… Continue reading Balance-Unbalance 2013
Leviathan and the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Leviathan, a documentary film about fishing ships in the Northern Atlantic, by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, won the international critics’ prize at the Locarno Film Festival. I could see it, thanks to Mark Peranson and Bettina Steinbrügge, and indeed, I pass you on the recommendation to go and see this work, which achieves “an… Continue reading Leviathan and the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Time of the Clock, Time of Encounter
The aim of the project is to change the way people think about temporality. The group believes that arts and humanities have particular forms of knowledge around temporality that are of potential use to communities. This project investigates the difference between the time of the clock and the lived time of experience. We live in… Continue reading Time of the Clock, Time of Encounter
ALECC 2012 Biennial Conference
The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada / Association pour la littérature, l’environnement et la culture au Canada (ALECC) is a non-profit organization focused on the creation, appreciation, discussion, analysis, and dissemination of knowledge about the work of nature writers, environmental writers and journalists, eco-artists of all disciplines, ecocritics, and ecotheorists in Canada.… Continue reading ALECC 2012 Biennial Conference
4th Sustainable Summer School – Finland
The 4th Sustainable Summer School« for students from all around the world starts on August 25th and ends September 3rd, 2012 in Helsinki. This year the Sustainable Summer School is hosted by the Aalto University and takes place in Helsinki on Suomenlinna island. In the Sustainable Summer School the students will work together on different… Continue reading 4th Sustainable Summer School – Finland
Conference “Narratives and Building Environmental Responsibility ”
Monday 4 June 2012 – UNESCO House (Paris) The conference is organized in the framework of UNESCO’s activities aimed at fostering debate on the ethics of global environmental change and of science and technology, and at promoting philosophical thinking to elaborate modern paradigms of sustainable human development. One of the founders of environmental ethics and… Continue reading Conference “Narratives and Building Environmental Responsibility ”
