Learning from the future – towards cultures of sustainability This year’s summer session of the Nordic Summer University will take place on July 28th – August 2nd, in Denmark, at Brandtbjerg Højskole near Vejle. The NSU is organized in “study/reflection circles”, working with a theme for 3 years. This is the last session of circle/kreds… Continue reading Call for papers for Nordic Summer University summer session 2012 – kreds 2
Category: Academic Research
Call for Papers “Creative Communities 3: Risks & Possibilities”
September 26th- 28th 2012 – Gold Coast, Australia Hosted by Griffith University Centre for Cultural Research ‘Creative communities’ is a well-worn phrase conventionally equated with notions of well-being, civic participation and social inclusion. Creativity in this sense is regarded as social glue that bonds individuals together through collaboration in various forms of creative projects –… Continue reading Call for Papers “Creative Communities 3: Risks & Possibilities”
Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change
Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. At the same time, however, this deep and long-established relationship with the natural environment affords many indigenous peoples with knowledge that they have… Continue reading Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change
International Conference:“Popular Culture and Social Transformation”
What can we learn about social transformations from popular culture? The two- day conference, entitled “Popular Culture and Social Transformation”, will be held in Oslo on 4-5 October 2012. The aim of the conference is through a variety of sessions and topics to address how popular culture is not only a mirror of society, but… Continue reading International Conference:“Popular Culture and Social Transformation”
An Ecology of Ideas Conference – July 9-13, 2012 (USA)
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)
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
Conference ‘Nature and the Popular Imagination’ in Malibu CA
Call for Papers The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture http://www.religionandnature.com/society/ (ISSRNC) announced its next conference in Malibu, California at Pepperdine University on August 8-11, 2012. The conference theme will be “Nature and the Popular Imagination.”
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/
ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues, the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia… Continue reading ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
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“
