FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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CALL FOR PAPERS
A joint session of the Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas,the
Canadian Society for Aesthetics, and Society for Philosophy and Geography
at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences to be held at Université
de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, June 3 and 4, 1999.
Questioning Natural Spaces and Their Aesthetic Appreciation
We seek papers, 20 minutes reading time, that address the following
problematic.
Given recent postructuralist and postmodernist analyses of our conceptions
of our world, to what extent, and in what way, does it make sense to speak
of nature as a referent? This question poses itself concretely in
environmental aesthetics for, in this context, we need to ask ourselves
whether it makes any sense to speak of appreciation of natural spaces for
themselves ('disinterestedly') if we are limited to the 'intertextual play
of signifiers.' In other words, are we caught in a mere play of
projections, or is there some access left to something like 'autonomous
nature'?
Statements of interest and abstract should be sent as soon as possible.
Papers should be sent by Jan. 15th, 1999. (Appropriate papers may be
considered for inclusion in a volume on Autonomous Nature in Hybrid Spaces
presently in preparation.)
Dr. Thomas Heyd, Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria,
Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P4, Canada. Fax 250 - 721 7511.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 250 - 381 2239.
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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