Job Opening: Knowledge Infrastructures for Environmental Justice Postdoc
Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University
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Job Opening: Knowledge Infrastructures for Environmental Justice Postdoc
Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2016 Continue reading
Registration for the Tenth Annual Meeting
on Environmental Philosophy is now OPEN.
Registration Deadline: Friday, May 17, 2013
Download a Registration Form
Please complete a registration form and return to:
Environmental Philosophy Conference
Registry 3.15
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Email: k.konyn@uea.ac.uk
Telephone: 01603 592286
The fees for students (£40 / $63 for the conference) are significantly reduced thanks to external funding by The University of East Anglia.
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Confirmed Speakers:
![]() Iain McGilchrist |
![]() Emily Brady |
![]() Simon James |
![]() Angela Breitenbach |
![]() Larry Lohmann |
![]() Kate Rawles |
![]() Rupert Read |
![]() Ruth Makoff |
![]() Tom Greaves |
and via weblink: |
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![]() Ted Toadvine |
![]() Katie McShane |
![]() Jeremy Bendik-Keymer |
The conference programme includes:
UEA Wildlife Trail (photo: Tom Greaves)
The ISEE invites submissions on any topic in environmental philosophy / ecophilosophy broadly conceived. The focus of the tenth annual meeting will be on developing ideas and concepts that are not only thematically concerned with the environment but are themselves contributions to ecological action.
There will be a reduced conference fee for all speakers
![]() Iain McGilchrist |
![]() Emily Brady |
![]() Simon James |
![]() Angela Breitenbach |
![]() Larry Lohmann |
![]() Kate Rawles |
![]() Rupert Read |
![]() Ruth Makoff |
![]() Tom Greaves |
and via weblink: |
||
![]() Ted Toadvine |
![]() Katie McShane |
![]() Jeremy Bendik-Keymer |
Dr Tom Greaves, School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, UK T.Greaves@uea.ac.uk +44 (0)1603 593187
Natalie Mitchell, Arts & Humanities Events Office, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, UK n.mitchell@uea.ac.uk +44 (0)1603 592810
(Photo: Edie Steiner, Text 2: from the series Material Remains, 2003)
In the second part of CoHearence’s look at the 2011 conference, Green Words/Green Worlds: Environmental Literatures and Politics in Canada, we continue our investigation of the relationship between the cultivation of an environmental reading (and writing) practice and engaged eco-politics. Featuring excerpts from the Green Words/Green Worlds opening public poetry panel which included keynote presenters Brian Bartlett, Armand Garnett Ruffo and Rita Wong, we build on our discussion with conference organizers Catriona Sandilands and Ella Soper about why literature is important for environmental thought and action. We explore how and why Canadian ecocritics and poets are engaging with the challenging environmental questions of our time and provide perspectives for rethinking the way we imagine our environment.
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Citation: Di Battista, Amanda and Andrew Mark, “Poetic Nature(s): Literature and Politics at the Green Words/Green Worlds Conference Part 2” CoHearence. 12 June 2012.
(Photo: Edie Steiner, Text 1: from the series Material Remains, 2003)
In the fall of 2011, ecocritics, writers, and poets from across Canada attended a conference at the Gladstone hotel in Toronto. This conference, entitled “Green Words/Green Worlds: Environmental Literatures and Politics in Canada,” focused on the relationship between the cultivation of an environmental reading (and writing) practice and engaged eco-politics. In this CoHearence episode, we’ll use recorded material collected at the conference as well as a follow-up interview with the conference organizers to explore the ways that Canadian ecocritics and poets are engaging with the challenging environmental questions of our time. Featuring conference organizers Catriona Sandilands and Ella Soper as well as keynote presenters Adam Dickinson, Anne, Milne, and Molly Wallace, we’ll ask the question: in a world increasingly characterized by climate change, environmental disasters, and technology, why does literature matter? How can an environmental writing practice be a political act?
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Citation: Di Battista, Amanda and Andrew Mark, “Poetic Nature(s): Literature and Politics at the Green Words/Green Worlds Conference” CoHearence. 24 May 2012.
(Photo: Edie Steiner, Industrial Ruins at Michipicoten Bay, 2010.)
“My name is this and that and I come from here and there and I practice I don’t know what and I am not myself because I am also my government and I am also my economy and I am very much my one-directional totalitarian culture which subdues me and misuses me and uses and misuses my work to the point where I don’t know where my work is itself or where my work is something other than itself or where my work is the opposite of itself and this one-directional culture uses and misuses not only my production but also my protest against these uses and misuses because my protest is part of its pluralistic glory which is part of its world governing economic order which presents itself as a religion and is as fervently believed in as a religion and extracts from its believers the fanaticism of a fervently believed in religion and the chief characteristic of this self-righteous world governing order is that it is marching on and on and on and on and this marching on and on and on and on has no opposition because it eats opposition for breakfast.”
– Peter Schumann, Bread and Puppet
The title of this episode, Resistance for Breakfast: Hegemony, Arts, and Environment, is a playful departure from Peter Schumann’s words, and suggests that, perhaps, we could all use a little more resistance in our diet. We will investigate how hegemonic power manifests itself in environmental art and how art practices can also expose and challenge such power. Hegemony is a social condition in which dominant groups exercise power in all aspects of social reality not through militarized violence but rather through implied means (Mayo, 35). The scholars, activists, and educators we speak with call for resistance to hegemonic power that is not only critical and subversive but also beautiful.
Featuring interviews with FES Professor Deborah Barndt, storyteller and FES contract faculty Chris Cavanagh, FES PhD candidate Heather McLean, and artist and FES PhD candidate Edie Steiner, we will discuss the ways ‘the arts’ reinforce common sense understandings of what constitutes ‘good art.’ We’ll also explore the problematic relationship between large art festivals and local arts movements and suggest ways in which critical environmental art practices can facilitate meaningful activism and create change.
CoHearence Contributor Websites/Blogs
Community Art and Arts Activist Web Resources
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Citation: Di Battista, Amanda and Andrew Mark, “Exploring the Intersections of Culture, History, and the Environment” CoHearence. 11 April 2012.