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Subject: Call for Papers for Fall 2011 GMU Cultural Studies Graduate
Student Conference: "Ecological Inequalities and Interventions:
Contemporary Environmental Practices"
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:11 -0400
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Jason Morris
PhD Student, Cultural Studies Program
Co-organizer, GMU Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference, Fall
2011 (http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/ecological.html)
George Mason University
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*/Ecological Inequalities and Interventions:/*
*/Contemporary Environmental Practices/*
The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) of George Mason
University invites paper proposals for our 5th annual Cultural Studies
Graduate Student Conference. The Conference will take place on Friday,
September 23, 2011 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr.
Timothy Luke, Chair and University Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, will
deliver the keynote address.*
Call for Papers
/ “Since most of history’s giant trees have already been cut down, a new
Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate
humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies,
bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias.”/
(Mike Davis, “Who Will Build the Ark?”, New Left Review, January 2010)
The current and future impacts of ongoing, globalized environmental
crises have animated scholars, activists, and professionals from a wide
variety of disciplines and backgrounds and generated a burgeoning field
of work that seeks to come to grips with the ecologies of the present as
well as the possible ecologies of the future. This conference will
provide a forum for emerging scholars and practitioners involved in
cultural studies, environmental studies, the arts and humanities, public
policy, political ecology and related fields to engage in
conversations regarding contemporary and prospective environmental
practices and politics.
We seek to engage in efforts to develop a deeper understanding of human
interventions – in the forms of work, art, and politics – into the
environment. We also wish to examine the ways in which concepts such as
“nature” and “human practice” inform, articulate with and determine one
another. “Ecological Inequalities and Interventions: Contemporary
Environmental Practices” will offer an appropriately interdisciplinary
forum for work in this emerging area of inquiry.
Possible paper topics include:
· Environmental activism: past, present, and future
· Labor, Nature and Culture
· Marxism and Ecology
· Ecology as critique and self-critique
· Creative expression and Ecology
· Neoliberalism and Discourses of Sustainability
· Ecology and the Politics of the Global South
· Environmentalism and Citizenship
· Green economies
· Academic interventions and public policy
We welcome proposals for traditional academic paper presentations, as
well as alternative formats such as panel discussions, workshops, and
film screenings. In addition we hope to publish select conference papers
in an edited volume or curated journal issue.
Abstracts of 300 words and a current CV should be sent to Jason Morris
(jmorrisf AT masonlive DOT gmu DOT edu) by 10 June 2011. Please include
the title, presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, contact
information, A/V requests and any other special needs required.
Abstracts should be sent as .doc, .rtf or PDF file attachments.
Keep up to date with the conference through out
website: http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/ecological.html
*Biography of Dr. Timothy Luke
In addition to his duties within the Department of Political Science Dr.
Luke serves as Program Chair of the Government and International Affairs
Program in the School of Public and International Affairs, and Director
of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture. In 2003, he also
initially organized and directed the new interdisciplinary PhD program
in Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought at Virgina Tech. His
areas of research include environmental politics and cultural studies as
well as comparative politics, international political economy, and
modern critical social and political theory. He is the author
of numerous monographs and articles including: A Journal of
No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical
Theory, Timothy W. Luke and Ben Agger, eds. (New York: Telos Press
Publishing, forthcoming 2011); There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and
Terror at Virginia Tech, Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, eds. (Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), Museum Politics: Powerplays at the
Exhibition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2002); Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1999), The Politics of Cyberspace,
co-edited with Chris Toulouse (New York: Routledge, 1998),
and Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and
Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
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