UK September 1st – 2nd, 2012 On the 1st and 2nd of September 2012 the University College Falmouth inc. Darlington College of Arts invites to the conference Environmental Utterance. Highly contextual practices are used in every academic disciplines, exploring ways of articulating specific environments, spaces or places. This conference examines a specific problematic that attends the dissemination of… Continue reading Conference: Environmental Utterance
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Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
The first special issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) presents the proceedings of a 2009 conference on ‘Music and Migration’, which was part of the 3-year research project ‘Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: A Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa’. The project was based at the Universities of Southampton and… Continue reading Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
The Home and the World – On Being at Home
South Devon 19th to 21st of June 2012 From the 19th to the 21st of June 2012 a creative summit for artists and other thinkers will take place at Dartington Hall Estate in south Devon/England. The summit will focus on the question if the alienation of humankind from the natural world has effected his condition… Continue reading The Home and the World – On Being at Home
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Submissions are invited for The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science (TJES), by the The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (TheATLAS). The editors search for original manuscripts reporting multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary engineering and science research. Not only primary research articles, but also papers in transdisciplinary education can be published.… Continue reading The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science
Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012
Netherlands (Special Municipality of Sint Eustatius) Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012 For the time from the 1st of May to the 21st of May 2012, Aardwerk offers an international PDC course in a remote place, so that participants are able to see their environment in a new way. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, the course… Continue reading Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012
Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 10-13, 2012 Building on the success of Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America in October 2010, Under Western Skies 2 welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address the… Continue reading Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
People Unite for the Future We Want
New York December 16th On Friday, the 16th of December from 1pm-6pm environmental, youth, and social justice groups from all over the world will unite in order to claim a true and lasting change for people and for the planet. Therefore they will take action while the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development preparatory meetings… Continue reading People Unite for the Future We Want
Publication: EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS
Orientation for Cultural Cooperation Between China and Europe Free download link at the end of this post ! As a result of the project EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS, a publication is now available, addressing the question of intercultural communication and cooperation. In the framework of an ongoing dialogue between China and Europe, the project was generated… Continue reading Publication: EUROPE-CHINA CULTURAL COMPASS
Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes
May 25th – 26th 2012 Derby, UK This conference seeks exciting disciplinary and transdisciplinary proposals from scholars working in fields such as cultural studies, literary studies, cultural politics/history, creative writing, film and media studies, Area Studies, photography, fine art, interested in examining the different ways in which human beings respond and relate to,… Continue reading Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes
Ecocultures 2012: Transitions to Sustainability
Essex 17th – 18th of April 2012 The conference Ecocultures 2012 takes place at the University of Essex from the 17th to the 18th of April. The aim of Ecocultures 2012 is to show, how communities can adapt successfully to social-ecological change and thus reach the maintenance of resilience and the enhancement of wellbeing. Ecocultures… Continue reading Ecocultures 2012: Transitions to Sustainability
