Sunday, March 13, 2011
AESS-CFP Deadline Extended
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences has extended the deadline for abstracts to March 22 for its annual conference to be held in Burlington, Vermont, June 23 - 26. "Confronting Complexity" is the theme of the conference. For more details see www.aess.info.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
PHILOSOPHY'S OTHER: THEORY ON THE WEB: Cfp: Kögler, Hans-Herbert, and Paul Healy, eds. S...
PHILOSOPHY'S OTHER: THEORY ON THE WEB: Cfp: Kögler, Hans-Herbert, and Paul Healy, eds. S...: "Twentieth century hermeneutics, including the work of Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur, effected a revolution regarding the concepts of unders..."
Friday, February 4, 2011
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 9th Biennial Conference
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) will host its ninth biennial conference at Indiana University in Bloomington June 22 – 26 (with pre-conference activities on June 21). I was recently notified, along with 3 colleagues from the University of North Texas (Nathan Bell, Ivana Corsales, and Dr. Robert M. Figueroa), that our panel proposal was accepted. The theme of the panel is “Heritage and Horizons of Environmental Justice.” The purpose of the panel is to explore the roots of the environmental justice movement (EJM) and environmental justice studies (EJS) while looking to the important contributions that philosophical hermeneutics can offer its future. Hermeneutics has much to offer in terms of heritage and history, place and dwelling, identity, discourse, and future planning. We hope to make this case on the panel.
The conference is yet several months away. But stay tuned to this blog for any updates, especially following the conference itself.
The conference is yet several months away. But stay tuned to this blog for any updates, especially following the conference itself.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Environmental Thought Bibliography
The International Society for Environmental Ethics has recently launched a dynamic bibliography for environmental thought (found at www.isee-obet.org).
While still in its beginning stages, this bibliography promises to be of great benefit to environmental philosophers, including those studying the relationship between environmental philosophy and hermeneutics. Readers of this blog are encouraged to check this new resource out. Already some works related to environmental hermeneutics are easily found through keywords (e.g. "hermeneutics"), and more will undoubtedly follow.
Not every work on environmental hermeneutics is listed on this bibliography, however, and so consider joining the bibliography's contributors to add these works.
While still in its beginning stages, this bibliography promises to be of great benefit to environmental philosophers, including those studying the relationship between environmental philosophy and hermeneutics. Readers of this blog are encouraged to check this new resource out. Already some works related to environmental hermeneutics are easily found through keywords (e.g. "hermeneutics"), and more will undoubtedly follow.
Not every work on environmental hermeneutics is listed on this bibliography, however, and so consider joining the bibliography's contributors to add these works.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
CFP: Religion and Ecology Group, American Academy of Religion
The following comes from the Religion and Ecology group of the American Academy of Religion. The AAR Annual Meeting will be in San Francisco, 18-21 November 2011. To submit a proposal, go to www.aarweb.org.
Call for Proposals
This Group seeks papers on the following topics:
* Religious environmental imaginations, histories, and movements relating to San Francisco and California such as radical environmentalism in the West (e.g., Edward Abbey and Earth First!), bioregionalism, eco-utopias, revisiting John Muir’s religiosity, queer ecologies, and ecology and disaster
* The ecological in-between — exploring our relationships with everyday technology, exploring the ambiguous ethical stance of living toward a different ecological future from within consumer worlds, exploring the concept of “saving nature” while recognizing that nature is always in transformation, and exploring pets, working animals, gardens, and other nonhuman identities “in between” domestic/cultivated and wild
* Ecological hermeneutics, ecosemiotics, and ecocriticism (for a possible cosponsored session with the SBL Ecological Hermeneutics Section) — multireligious, critical reflection on the ecohermeneutics of religious texts (such as the ecobible series); race, gender, and the hermeneutics of “nature”; and the “environmental movement”
Mission
This Group critically and constructively explores how human–Earth relations are shaped by religions, cultures, and understandings of nature and the environment. We are self-consciously inter- and multidisciplinary and include methods such as those found in the work of theologians, philosophers, religionists, ethicists, scientists, and anthropologists, among others.
Anonymity of Review Process
Proposals are anonymous to Chairs and Steering Committee Members during review, but visible to Chairs prior to final acceptance or rejection.
Questions?
Whitney Bauman
Florida International University
whitneyabauman@mac.com
A. Whitney Sanford
University of Florida
wsanford@ufl.edu
Call for Proposals
This Group seeks papers on the following topics:
* Religious environmental imaginations, histories, and movements relating to San Francisco and California such as radical environmentalism in the West (e.g., Edward Abbey and Earth First!), bioregionalism, eco-utopias, revisiting John Muir’s religiosity, queer ecologies, and ecology and disaster
* The ecological in-between — exploring our relationships with everyday technology, exploring the ambiguous ethical stance of living toward a different ecological future from within consumer worlds, exploring the concept of “saving nature” while recognizing that nature is always in transformation, and exploring pets, working animals, gardens, and other nonhuman identities “in between” domestic/cultivated and wild
* Ecological hermeneutics, ecosemiotics, and ecocriticism (for a possible cosponsored session with the SBL Ecological Hermeneutics Section) — multireligious, critical reflection on the ecohermeneutics of religious texts (such as the ecobible series); race, gender, and the hermeneutics of “nature”; and the “environmental movement”
Mission
This Group critically and constructively explores how human–Earth relations are shaped by religions, cultures, and understandings of nature and the environment. We are self-consciously inter- and multidisciplinary and include methods such as those found in the work of theologians, philosophers, religionists, ethicists, scientists, and anthropologists, among others.
Anonymity of Review Process
Proposals are anonymous to Chairs and Steering Committee Members during review, but visible to Chairs prior to final acceptance or rejection.
Questions?
Whitney Bauman
Florida International University
whitneyabauman@mac.com
A. Whitney Sanford
University of Florida
wsanford@ufl.edu
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