Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 13:14:33 -0800
From: Lynne Fessenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Program Description again!
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Irene,
Here's the description and guidelines again. Are you actually on the
ecofem listserv?? I tried sending this to them and it wouldn't go through
because I am not on the listserv . . . so if YOU are, please try sending
this off to them
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Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science and the Sacred
A Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship Program
Center for the Study of Women in Society
University of Oregon
Program Description
Ecological wisdom is cultivating a new ethos, a new covenant, a new spirit
of place. More than three decades after Rachel Carson first raised a
passionate voice of conscience in protest against the pollution and
degradation of nature, the gendered dimensions of the global environmental
predicament are increasingly visible. Key elements of Western science and
environmental management have been challenged by postcolonial, feminist,
antiracist, and indigenous peoples' struggles. These movements have
generated investigations of the religious and cultural meaning systems and
the socioeconomic underpinnings of Western colonization and desacralization
of the natural world. The global nexus of these movements has opened up
fundamental philosophical, evolutionary, political, and spiritual questions.
Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science and the Sacred proposes to engage
the creativity generated by the convergence of women's and ecological
movements around the globe. The program will create a forum for critical
reflection and scholarly interchange where the assumptions about knowledge
and the world that shape these movements can be complicated and contested.
Our goal is a series of dynamic conversations where scholars, writers,
scientists, theologians and grass-roots activists from different cultural
and national contexts can move beyond environmental crisis rhetoric and
explore conceptual and ethical vocabularies that meet the challenges of a
new millennium.
Each year's theme will balance questions of theory and practice.
Fellowships will be provided in the 1999-2000 academic year to scholars,
writers and activists whose work centers on issues of gender and ecology,
environmental justice, or ecofeminism. We welcome proposals that deal with
basic epistemological, theological, philosophy of science, and cultural
questions, as well as those focusing on specific problems such as
environmental illness, fertility, sexuality, or geographical displacement.
The theme for 2000-2001 is the cultural analysis of scientific concepts,
practices and policies. We will consider how scientific concepts and
findings are translated into public environmental discourse, and the role
of the emerging ecofeminist vision of science and technology in this
discourse. During 2001-2002, we will focus on the ways in which scientific
and sacred epistemologies are being integrated and how this integration (or
lack thereof) influences our sense of place. The program is committed to
an international dialogue. Ideally, half of the fellows will be from
outside the U.S. and Europe.
In addition to pursuing their own research project, fellows will
participate in a biweekly seminar and an annual CSWS-sponsored conference
on the theme of the Rockefeller program for that year. Appointment
duration may range from three to nine months. A monthly stipend, medical
coverage and travel expenses will be provided. Awards may not be used for
the completion of graduate degrees, advanced training, curriculum
development, or for writing poetry or fiction.
The Center for the Study of Women in Society
Founded as a multidisciplinary research center in 1983, The Center for the
Study of Women in Society (CSWS) generates, supports, and disseminates
research on gender and on all aspects of women's lives. The center has a
large cadre of active faculty affiliates representing disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences, most of the natural and physical sciences
and all of the professional schools. CSWS is a member of the National
Council for Research on Women. The Rockefeller program was originally
conceived and developed by the center's Women and the Environment Research
Interest Group, under the direction of Irene Diamond, associate professor
of political science, and CSWS director Sandra Morgen.
Resources at the University of Oregon
Nurtured by the region's long history of independent and original thinkers
in ecological theory and practice, the University of Oregon has become an
international locus of environmental scholarship and activism. The
Environmental Studies Program is unique among US campuses due to its strong
humanities component, and is one of two in the country that offers a Ph.D.
level program in literature and the environment. Also unique, are the
resources of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, which fosters
research addressing the long-term sustainability of the earth's major
environmental systems and encourages cross-disciplinary environmental
research, education and public service.
The University's School of Law hosts the premier annual gathering for
environmentalists worldwide. Now in its 18th year, the Public Interest
Environmental Law Conference unites attorneys, students, activists,
scientists and concerned citizens. Students at the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts founded the multidisciplinary HOPES (Holistic Options for
Planet Earth Sustainability), which sponsors an annual ECO-Design arts
conference focused on an ecologically sustainable approach to human living
systems.
Fellows will also have the opportunity to draw on the resources of the
ongoing scholarship of the Oregon Center for the Humanities, the Center for
Asian and Pacific Studies, the International Studies Program, the Religious
Studies Program, and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
Furnished office space will be provided, along with a telephone, computer,
network access, full privileges to university libraries, access to on-site
copy and fax machines, and some secretarial support.
Application Procedure
Please include the following items in your application
(We request that materials be written in English):
� Letter of Intent (1- 2 pages)
Describe how your work addresses the program's concerns and how
participation in the program will enhance your research/leadership.
� Proposal (3 - 5 pages)
Describe the project you will pursue as a fellow, including
your timeline.
� Curriculum vita or R�sum�
� Letters of Reference (2)
� Publication / Writing sample (1)
Application Deadline (for first year fellows):
February 1, 1999
Please send applications via the postal service within the US.
International applicants may consider delivery by electronic mail or
facsimile.
Application Deadline for second year fellows (2000-2001): January 17, 2000
Application Deadline for third year fellows (2001-2002): January 17, 2001
Address all inquiries and application materials to:
Rockefeller Fellowship Program
Center for the Study of Women in Society
1201 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1201
Telephone (541) 346-5015
Facsimile (541) 346-5096
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information, contact the CSWS web site:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csws/
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Irene Diamond
Department of Political Science
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
phone 541-346-4873 fax 541-346-4860
for information about the University of Oregon Rockefeller Humanities site
"Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science and the Sacred" see
Website: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csws/
