CALL FOR PAPERS – International Association for Environmental Philosophy Annual Meeting

iaepCall for papers
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
Twenty-First Annual Meeting October 21-23, 2017
Sheraton Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tennessee
Following the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
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CALL FOR PAPERS ─ Mountains and Sacred Landscapes (NYC; 2017)

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An International Conference Sponsored by:
India China Institute, The New School
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
April 20 – 23, 2017
The New School, New York City
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CFP – Phenomenology and the Environment

northern lightsIn the last ten years there has been an explosion of writing about the contributions phenomenology can make to our understanding of the environment.  The volume, proposed by Rowman & Littlefield, would be a compilation of essays reflecting the work of contemporary practitioners of phenomenology into the core questions of environmental philosophy.  The sense of “phenomenology” here is an expansive one, meant to include not only traditional varieties, but also those, for example, informed by more existential, hermeneutic, post-structuralist, or post-phenomenological approaches and figures.

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JOB – Postdoc, Environmental Humanities, Northwestern University

Alice Kaplan Humanities InstituteThe Environmental Policy and Culture Program and the Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute invite applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the environmental humanities, to run from September 1, 2014 through August 31, 2016.  Applications are welcome from scholars who study the environment from a humanities perspective (analyzing, for instance, environmental history; ecological interface and the built environment; ecological/ecocritical approaches to literature; animal studies, green studies, or cultural approaches to water and air; environmental justice and/or ethics and sustainability).   Continue reading