Call For Papers: Oceans and Deserts: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
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The connoisseur students in a Department of German Studies during a University of Arizona entice proposals for their third annual interdisciplinary discussion in a Environmental Humanities for rising scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and youth faculty) on Apr 1-2, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
Environmental questions have been pushing interdisciplinary investigate in many Humanities disciplines in new years. The intersection of enlightenment and sourroundings has invigorated classrooms and desirous publications, and conversations about environmental issues have extended over normal disciplinary divisions.
This discussion will be a space to try specific contributions of a Humanities to environmental issues of a benefaction and their intensity for a future. The organizers are looking to plead a far-reaching operation of questions that ask how sold Humanities approaches respond to environmental concerns and how interdisciplinary work in this area can be done productive. How, for instance, competence a opinion of a Romantics vis-à-vis inlet be a indication for function in a 21st century? How does recycling figure into artistic prolongation or a art classroom? Which informative or chronological conceptions of rabble change stream open debates? What kind of truth or ethics expostulate refuge efforts or environmentalism? What are a outcomes of queering a sourroundings or ecology? What is a denunciation or a aesthetics of meridian change? How do a destiny of a tellurian and a Humanities describe in a posthuman age? What figure would an environmental grammar, psychology, or pedagogy take?
The organizers entice papers formed on petrify examples or box studies from rising scholars in all areas of a Humanities, for instance literature, visible arts, history, informative studies, philosophy, gender studies, pedagogy, area/regional studies, linguistics, open policy/political theory, sacrament and ethics. The discussion denunciation will be English, though we quite acquire a colleagues in German Studies.
Possible subject areas and keywords embody though are not singular to a following:
– animal studies
– anthropocene
– biopolitics
– climate change
– critical plant studies
– eco-criticism
– eco-feminism
– eco-systems
– eco-terrorism
– ecology
– environmental catastrophes
– environmentalism
– extinction
– “green”
– horticulture
– landscapes
– life forms
– nature/culture
– organic (“bio”, “öko”)
– posthumanism
– preservation
– recycling
– trash
– Umwelt
– water
– “the wild”
Please contention a offer of no some-more than 350 difference for a 15-20-minute paper (including your name and institutional/departmental affiliation, paper pretension and A/V needs) together with a brief outline of your stream position and investigate by Dec 21, 2015 to OceansAndDesertsUA(at)gmail.com. Proposals for full panels are also welcome.
Graduate students competence have a event to stay with a internal connoisseur tyro (please prove your seductiveness when promulgation your proposal). There will be opportunities to revisit Biosphere 2 and see an designation by a University of Arizona Poetry Center during a Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
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