Call For Papers

Call for papers: Dreams, Revolution and Process : Spatial & temporal approaches to rural sustainability and regeneration

July 31, 2013Cultura21, Open CallsAmp, Backwater, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Ceredigion, Collective Aspiration, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Discipline, Dreams, Francesca, Gaps, Geography, Government Level, Harmony, Humanities, Industrialist, Interdisciplinary Conference, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Local Community, Material Resource, Mexico City, Negativism, Oleg, Paris France, Perspectives, Rana, Regeneration, Sacha, sustainability, Vitality

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Deadline = August 9th

5th October 2013,Â Dreams, Revolution and Process : Spatial & temporal approaches to rural sustainability and regeneration,Â at fforest, Cilgerran, Ceredigion (UK)

This interdisciplinary conference aims to respond to a range of material that addresses rural sustainability and regeneration, with a focus on how and why decisions are made at individual, local, community andÂ government level. Bringing together perspectives from geography, history, policy-making, regenerationÂ practitioners and the arts, the conference willÂ open up the gaps between individual and collective aspiration and reality.

Since the development of the urban, the rural has been a place of both harmony and negativism. It switches from radical, alternative (anti-industrialist) space where we canÂ renegotiate a relationship with â€˜natureâ€™, to uncultured backwater, representing little more than material resource. Such perspectives are formed in relation to history and space and need to be considered when reaching an understanding of, as well as approaches to, ruralÂ regeneration, in order to ask : Who is regenerating, and for whom?

Submissions are invited from any discipline â€“ sciences, humanities, regeneration practice, arts â€“ which, within the overall theme of a temporal/spatial understanding of rural sustainability and regeneration.

More details on the websiteÂ :Â click here

Call for Papers : â€œWhere is our ecological art history?

July 30, 2013Cultura21, Open Calls40th Anniversary, Art Architecture, Art History, Bookfair, Call For Papers, College Of Art London, Consi, Critical Issue, Critical Issues, Ecological Art, Gender Sexuality, Humanistic Discipline, Including Art, Material Culture, Practice Collections, Royal College Of Art, Royal College Of Art London, Significant Works, Social Identity, Visible Examples

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April 10-12, 2014 : 40th Anniversary, Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair, Royal College of Art, London

Deadline for proposals :Â November 11th 2013

The discipline of art history has proved itself able to look various crises of culture in the face and open up the discipline to ideological struggles and debates. These debates have involved its own politics as a discipline in response to critical issues. Issues of gender, sexuality, race and social identity have strongly inflected the discipline and have importantly shaped its trajectories and characteristic preoccupations over a number of years, but what of the critical issue of our environment? There are some highly significant works which have discussed artâ€™s and artistsâ€™ responses and interventions in the crucial area of ecology, but perhaps less talked about and made visible is art historyâ€™s disciplinary response to crises in nature and the environment throughout its history as a discipline.

The aim of this session is to bring this ecological art history to the fore, to uncover, freshly discover and make visible examples of such an ecological art history. The session also offers the opportunity to discuss whether art historyâ€™s status as a â€˜humanisticâ€™ discipline has in the past hindered its concern for the natural world and the environment other than through strong human cultural paradigms, and consider how the discipline has started to change with further interests in â€˜eco-aestheticsâ€™ and other multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary approaches to the history of the environment and its critical future : â€œWe feel that this is an extremely prescient moment for the history of art to engage more actively in this cross-disciplinary themeâ€, explains Andrew Patrizio, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture, School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh.

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Call for Papers â€“ Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future

February 22, 2013Cultura21, Open CallsCall For Papers, Climate Change, Current System, Economic Institutions, European Science Foundation, European Science Foundation Network, Freedom Of Movement, Future Generations, Global Population, Goal Worth, Moral Action, Moral Responsibilities, Personal Liberties, Political Agenda, Political Institutions, Precaution, Reproductive Autonomy, Science Foundation, Social Relationships, Soesterberg, Sustainable Politics

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Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics, in cooperation with theÂ ESF(European Science Foundation) networkÂ A Right to a Green FutureÂ is calling for papers for their Annual Conference, this year held inÂ Soesterberg, NetherlandsÂ on August 22-25, 2013. It will be the 50th Societas Ethica conference.

â€œClimate change, dwindling resources, and growth of the global population have emerged as challenges for all areas of political action in modern societies. These challenges have been on the political agenda since the â€œLimits to Growthâ€ report was released in 1972. While the challenges are well known, and while there appears to be some form of consensus that sustainability is a goal worth striving for, there is little discussion of how the changes necessary to achieve this goal will affect our political institutions, our social relationships, our moral responsibilities, and our self-understanding in general. The more far-reaching the necessary changes are, the more pressing the following questions will become: To what extent are political and economic institutions â€“ national as well as global â€“ capable of realizing sustainable politics and what is its ethical basis? To what extent will personal liberties, such as freedom of movement, property rights, and reproductive autonomy, need to be limited in order to realize sustainable politics? How could we extend the current system of human rights to incorporate the rights of future generations? Can we expect human beings to take responsibility for the living conditions of future generations, and how do such responsibilities affect philosophical and eschatological theories? An ethics of an open future must develop criteria for moral action under conditions of uncertainty. A developed theory of the principle of precaution in ethics and law is, however, lacking.â€

Paper channels:

Climate change and scarcity of resources as ethical challenges
Sustainability, future generations and human rights
Democracy, global governance and political ethics
An open future; philosophical and theological responses
Reflections from different cultural and religious perspectives
Open channel

Authors are invited to submit an abstract ofÂ max. 4,000 characters. Abstracts should be suitable for blind review.

Deadline for submissions:Â March 31, 2013

For more information on the call and the conference visitÂ www.societasethica.info

Call for Papers â€“ Crisis, Critique and Change

December 21, 2012Cultura21, Open Calls1st February, 31 August, Call For Papers, Contemporary Issues, Critical Voice, Debt Crisis, Ecological Crisis, Economic Exploitation, Environment And Society, European Sociological Association, Legitimation, Nexus, Pre Conference, Quantitative Research, Research Streams, Social Theory, Special Sessions, Strong Commitment, Submission Procedure, Turin Italy

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TheÂ European Sociological AssociationÂ (ESA) is calling for papers for their 11th conference, taking place inÂ Turin, ItalyÂ from theÂ 28-31 August 2013. The topic of the conference is â€œCrisis, Critique and Changeâ€œ.

There are multiple calls by all the different Research Network and Research Streams, ranging from Environment and Society or Quantitative Research to Social Theory, as well as a Call for Paper for a pre-conference PhD Workshop at the end of August.

One particular Research Network is theÂ Sociology of the ArtsÂ RN chaired byÂ Tasos Zembylas:

More informationÂ on this specific call, is availableÂ here.

The deadline for submissions is theÂ 1st February 2013. For further information on the Conference, all the Calls for Papers and the submission procedure please visit:http://www.esa11thconference.eu/home/

Call for Papers: Media and Climate Change

December 3, 2012Conferences, Cultura21, Open CallsAcademic Research, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Climate Change Impacts, Collaborative Research, Conceptual Frameworks, Conclusions, Empirical Aspects, Future Media, Ieca, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Media Coverage, Methodological Procedures, Oleg, Persuasive Communication, Rana, Representations, Sacha

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Papers are welcomed for a special issue of the journalÂ Environmental Communication: A Journal of Culture and NatureÂ (Official Journal of IECA) to be published inÂ March 2014Â on the topic ofMedia Research on Climate Change.

Acknowledging the vast amount of academic research done over the past decade on the media coverage of climate change and its various results, questions of how to continue in this research field have risen. What conclusions can be drawn from the existing works and how can the research move into the next phase? In which direction should the field orient itself, theoretically and empirically speaking?

Possible themes papers may address include:

The development of theoretical and conceptual frameworks for media studies on climate change
(New) methodological procedures for media studies on climate change
Particularly important empirical aspects of future media studies on climate change, such as online representations and/or the role of communications campaigns/persuasive communication
Ways in which media studies on climate change can be integrated into interdisciplinary collaborative research aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts

Deadline for submissions:Â 28 February 2013

For more detailed information on the journal and how to submit the paper, clickÂ here.

Call for Papers: Geography and Art

October 23, 2012Cultura21, Open CallsBerlin Germany, Call For Papers, Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Geographers, Interdisciplinary Conference, Kagan, Kajsa, Knowledges, Koefoed, Lyon France, Mexico City, Oleg, Page Id, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Space Place, Submission Schedule

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TheÂ International Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Geography: Aesthetics and Practices of Spatial KnowledgesÂ taking place at theÂ University of Lyon, FrancefromÂ February 11-13, 2013Â 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 are viewed in contemporary art, it is necessary to take a critical look at how relevant geographyâ€™s various responses to this â€œspatial turnâ€ have been and to unravel the implications â€“ in factual, methodological, theoretical and epistemological terms â€“ of the convergence between contemporary art and geography.

Geographers and artists from diverse backgrounds and with varying experiences in the field, as well as liberal arts researchers with similar interests in the spatial/geographical dimensions of art are encouraged to contribute.

For more information on the submission schedule:http://artgeographie.sciencesconf.org/resource/page?id=4&lang=en

For more information on the conference:Â http://artgeographie.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Sustainability and Empowerment

October 23, 2012Conferences, Cultura21America Continent, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Ecuadorian, Francesca, Gian Carlo, Graduate Conference, Hamburg Germany, International Graduate, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Latin American Perspectives, Mexico City, Oleg, Organizing Committee, Paris France, Phd Students, Rana, Sacha, Sustainability Issues, Un Secretary General, Vitality, Water War

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The organizing committee of theÂ International Graduate ConferenceÂ inÂ Hamburg, Germany invites you to the conferenceÂ taking place fromÂ 22nd till 25th of November.

The theme of the conference isÂ A survey on Latin-American perspectives after Rio+20, focusing on the Latin America continent, in the context of sustainable development and the role civil society can have in it. Examples like the Water War in Bolivia or the EcuadorianÂ YasunÃ-Initiative, have shown, that Latin America can be an innovative region in forming civil responses to sustainability issues.

Keynote speakers will beÂ Gian Carlo DelgadoÂ PhD. (UNAM) â€“ author of several books dealing with the relationship among political ecology, imperialism and climate change â€“ andÂ Juanita CastaÃ±oÂ PhD. (UNEP) â€“ former member of the UN Secretary-Generalâ€™s advisory board on water and sanitation and former Chief of the UNEP, who was present at the Rio +20 conference.

For more information on the conference:

http://sustainability-and-empowerment2012.blogspot.fr/2012/09/call4papersenglish.html

Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference

October 17, 2012Cultura21, Open Calls1000 Words, Barad, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Continuities And Discontinuities, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Epistemological Questions, Feburary 14, Feminism, Feminist Perspectives, Feminist Theory, Graduate Center, Kagan, Kajsa, Keynote Speaker, Koefoed, Marxism, Materialism, Mexico City, New Frontiers, Oleg, Organizing A Conference, Paper Presentations, Paris France, Phenomenology, Rana, Sacha, Science Studies, Women In Society

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TheÂ Center for the Study of Women in SocietyÂ and theÂ Committee on Interdisciplinary Science StudiesÂ at the Graduate Center are organizing a conference onÂ Feminism, Science & Materialism, taking place at theÂ Graduate Center, City University of New York, from Feburary 14-15, 2013.

The conference will focus on looking with feminist perspectives on the onto-epistemological questions raised by the materialist turn. Keynote speaker will be Karen Barad.

Papers from varying disciplines are invited, addressing a wide range of issues. Some possible examples to focus on might be:

The intellectual and scientific context of the new turn toward materialism

The relation of matter â€” including the biological body â€” to the social.

The relation between new materialism and previous materialisms (such as Marxism and phenomenology) and particularly their feminist elaborations. What are the continuities and discontinuities between feminist materialisms from the 1970s through the current moment?

The insights, knowledge and methodologies offered by the new materialist studies of science. What new frontiers have they opened? What can the new sciences offer for feminist theory?

Space for paper presentations is limited. To apply, please send an extended abstract of 1000 words and a short bio toÂ feminism [dot] science [at] gmail [dot] comÂ byNovember 1, 2012.

Call for papers for Nordic Summer University summer session 2012 â€“ kreds 2

June 1, 2012Cultura21, Open Calls28th August, Alliances, Angles, Anthology, August 2nd, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Circles, Civic Participation, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Critical Situation, Cross Fertilization, Decisive Role, Empirical Studies, Francesca, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Last Session, Launch, Methodological Considerations, Mexico City, Nsu, Oleg, Paris France, Political Implications, Rana, Sacha, sustainability, Technological Knowledge, University Summer Session, Vitality

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Learning from the future â€“ towards cultures of sustainability

This yearâ€™s summer session of the Nordic Summer University will take place on July 28th â€“ August 2nd, in Denmark, at Brandtbjerg HÃ¸jskole near Vejle. The NSU is organized in â€œstudy/reflection circlesâ€, working with a theme for 3 years. This is the last session of circle/kreds 2 around the theme of transculturality. The work of the circle has led to a published anthology in 2010, Learning from the Other, and upcoming, the anthology Learning from nowhere â€“ the becoming of culture. This last session will prepare the field to a possible new circle, moving from taking the perspective of â€Learning from the futureâ€ (2013-2015). This shift will focus then on the theme of cultures of sustainability or transculturality from an uncertain future.

Culture will play a decisive role in defining the way humanity approaches the meta- or mega-issue of sustainability. It is often said that we actually possess the technological knowledge to come out of the critical situation that the world is heading into.

Innumerable alliances are forming that acknowledge the urgency of the problem, from all thinkable angles of societies.

The invitation is for all interested in the themes (and crossing of themes) of culture, interculturality, transculturality, sustainability, climate change, civic participation, education, and philosophy, to contribute to our last session in circle 2 (and maybe the pre-launch of a new circle). Abstracts can be proposed along the themes of

Theoretical/epistemological/ontological investigations and reflections;
Empirical studies â€“ past and future;
Methodological considerations;
Discussions of issues of policy and political implications of the field.
..or whatever creative cross-fertilization you may be working with.

Practicalities

The summer session is coordinated by Johannes Servan, University of Bergen (Johannes [dot] Servan [at] fof [dot] uib [dot] no), and Oleg Koefoed, Cultura21 Nordic and Roskilde University (oleg [at] cultura21 [dot] dk). Please send your abstract (no more than 200 words) by June 1st at the latest, to one of the coordinators.

They accept abstracts in all Nordic languages, (or in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German); presentations can be held in English, as well as in Nordic languages (although some languages might call more for translation than others). One or more authors can hand in an abstract and/or present together.

Preliminary program is expected around June 8th. If you want to participate without presenting, registration is possible until June 15th. Whether presenting or not, you must register your participation via the NSU-website. Registration for the Summer Session is done via the form at the web page. Registration is open from April 1st to June 15th. Your will receive an email with a receipt after registration. You are not fully registered before payment has been accepted. Visit www.nsuweb.net for more information and for the story around the Nordic Summer University and Brandtbjerg HÃ¸jskole. The preliminary program will be published on www.nsuweb.net. Sign up for the newsletter to get the necessary information and deadlines.

Arrival: 27th of July during the day.

Departure: the 3rd August in the morning

Registration for the Summer Session is done via the form at the webpage. Registration is from April 1st to June 15th. Your will receive an email with a receipt after registration.

Participant from the Nordic and Baltic Countries will receive travel refund.

Prices for participation, including meals and lodging, are:

Adult in single room: 5000 SEK
Adult in single room: 5500 SEK
Adult in two bed room: 3500 SEK
Child, 3-11 years: 1100 SEK
Child, 12-15 years: 2200 SEK
Student in two bed room: 1750 SEK

Students, who receive student discount, are expected to help the organizers with two-three hours work during the week. Application for student discount is done by registration. Initially, two spaces pr. Nordic country are offered. The offer does not apply to ph.d. students.

Ph.d. students can receive a certificate of participation. Participants can receive up to 5 ETCS points. As a participant you can get a discount on all publications from Aarhus University Press and a special discount on NSUâ€™s own publications. Your order should be placed by registration to the summer session.

To read the full version of the call (PDF file), click here.

Call for Papers â€œCreative Communities 3: Risks & Possibilitiesâ€

May 30, 2012Cultura21, Open CallsBerlin Germany, Call For Papers, Call For Proposals, Civic Participation, Civil Unrest, Conference Themes, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Communities, Creative Community, Creative Practices, Creative Projects, Drama Dance, Existing Research, Fostering Community, Francesca, Gold Coast Australia, Griffith University Centre, Interactive Workshops, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Oleg, Oral Papers, Paris France, Proposal Submissions, Rana, Roundtable Discussions, Sacha, Social Glue, Social Inclusion, Urban Designers

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September 26th- 28th 2012 â€“ Gold Coast, Australia

Hosted by Griffith University Centre for Cultural Research

â€˜Creative communitiesâ€™ 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 â€“ be it visual art, drama, dance, theatre,music, writing or a combination of these. that bring communities together in positive and fulfilling ways.

Similarly, community connotes a wholehearted feeling, the strength of relationships in networks or inclusiveness through a sense of shared characteristics and values.

There is now a significant body of practice, policy and academically focused work that highlights the importance of the â€˜creative communityâ€™ in fostering community well-being. At the same time, however, the term creative community throws up a number of questions that remain largely unaddressed in existing research, for example;

How does creativity actually impact community?
What is lost when the term â€˜creative communitiesâ€™ is imposed on place?
How are decisions on processes of inclusion / exclusion in creative practices made and who controls such decisions?
What happens to a creative community when access to resources that facilitate its creativity are lost or compromised and what sort of factors can contribute to this â€“ e.g socio-economic change, civil unrest, urban redevelopment, shifts in state and government policy?

Call for Proposals

Griffith Centre for Cultural Research invites proposal submissions from scholars, artists & cultural workers, designers, urban designers, architects and policy makers interested in presenting oral papers, presentations, interactive workshops, panels or roundtable discussions on the following Conference themes;

1. Creative Communities At Risk

Perceptions of societal danger- Aversion and subversive behaviour
Individual versus collective risk and possibility between invisibility and presence
Laws and regulations and their impact or influence on creative communities

2. Itineraries of engagement

Creative Practice and cultural indicators in policy making
Idealization and leadership
Professional versus hobbyist perspectives of creative practice
Public events as catalysts for community
Observing and evaluating participation in creative engagement
Possibilities of participation- gatekeepers

3.Transcultural dialogues

Emergent global creativities
Community, creativity and post transnational trauma -, for example, 9/11- Bali bombing, London â€˜youthâ€™ riots, Black Friday Victorian bush fires
Cultural tourism /mis-tourism
Asia Pacific heritage Â·dialogues

4. Politics of networks

Digital social networking (lived environments versus online/virtual)
Politics, kinship, and the role of communities /Creative geographies, ecologies and networks
Migration of skills and experience (migrants/refugees, professional arts workers, skills exchange learning, mentors and novice)
Flexible and local forums and networks, complexity in varied contexts
Hard-to-reachâ€™ membership cohorts.

5. Diversity and inclusion: Creativity as a catalyst for reconciling difference Social Sustainability and the creative artist: socially responsible creative commitment

Personal Development as a liberating force: confidence building in community sub groups
Collaboration: reliable interdependence: links through non-political non-biased creativity
Transparency and ownership: who owns the project
Old and skilled/young and skilled: forging links and breaking down generational barriers

Proposals due 23rd June 2012 to gccr [at] griffith [dot] edu [dot] au

Please use this form to submit your application.

Applicants will be notified of the acceptance of abstracts by 20th July 2012 at the latest.

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For program updates, please visit http://ps3beta.com/project/8334