FYI...Stefanie
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Greetings,
I am writing to invite you to participate in an online conference entitled
"Cultures and Environments: On Cultural Environmental Studies." The
conference, sponsored by the American Studies Program at Washington State
University, will take place from June 20-22, with online paper posted
earlier. The call for papers details different levels and kinds of
participation you might choose. We hope you will take part and encourage
friends and colleagues with interests in the relationship between cultural
studies and environmental studies to take part as well. Also please feel
free to post the call on any websites or bulletin boards or other sites of
circulation you or your organization may use.
Thank you.
best wishes,
T.V. Reed, Director
American Studies Program
Washington State University
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CULTURES & ENVIRONMENTS:
ON CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
An online conference, June 20-22, 1997
hosted by the American Studies Program of
Washington State University
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Call for Papers
This conference seeks to explore the relatively unmapped terrain where
cultural studies (broadly conceived) and environmental studies (broadly
conceived) meet, overlap, and enter into dialogue. What is "cultural
environmental studies," or "environmental cultural studies"? How should
such a field be constituted? What are the core issues, concepts, values,
questions, pedagogies? To what extent can we speak of nature or the
environment as a "social construction"? In what ways do cultural questions
shape the production and reception of scientific and social scientific
knowledge of the environment? In what ways do cultural assumptions shape
the terms used in this discussion (i.e., are words like "nature," culture,"
and "environment" themselves hopelessly ethnocentric or otherwise
culture-bound in destructive ways)? How do issues of race, class, gender,
sexuality and their intersections shape our perceptions of environments and
environmental issues? We hope to focus a significant portion of the
conference on issues of teaching, asking how the kinds of questions listed
above can be brought into the classroom at various educational levels, and
into teaching situations outside the classroom.
Topics might include:
Environmental Justice
Multicultural Environmental Perspectives
Indigenous Cultures & Western "Nature"
Environmental History & Cultural History: Tensions & Intersections
Environmental Feminisms
Social Constructionism & the Reality of Nature
Western Values and/or Biocentric Values
Science as Culture & Questions of Empirical Truth
Environmental Service Learning
Environmental Public Policy as Environmental Education
Environmental Movements as Environmental Education
Critical Pedagogy, Environmental Pedagogy
Art Education and/as Environmental Education
Technology & Cultural Environmental Education
Conference participants will include Neil Smith, Andrew Light, Giovana di
Chirico, David Sonnefeld, Paul Hirt, Gerald Young, Nodeltal Sturgeon, Darin
Saul, Katrine Barber, Dorceta Taylor, Desiree Helegers, Penny Hall, Monika
Maendler, among many others.
The conference will include:
o online posted papers & keynote "addresses"
o comments on papers by designated online commentators
o space for open commentary by any online participant
o times for sychronous online "chat room" conversations around selected
topics designated by keynoters (to be confirmed soon)
o a set of learning modules on "cultural environmental studies" created by
faculty and students at Washington State available online for commentary,
critique and discussion.
PAPERS: Papers are invited on any area of "cultural environmental studies,"
but preference will be given to papers raising fundamental questions about
how such a field should develop
They should be approximately 10-15 pages in length.
Deadline for submission of papers for consideration May 15, 1997.
COMMENTATORS: People wishing to participate in the conference as
commentators on online papers should submit their name, a brief vita
(1-2pages) and particular areas of expertise you'd be interested in
commenting on.
Any questions about the conference should be directed to T.V. Reed
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please visit our web site: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/ce/conference.html
T.V. Reed
Director of American Studies &
Associate Professor of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5022
WSU American Studies: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is
too dark to read." -- Marx (Groucho).
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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