FYI.... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:51:47 -0400 From: Kavita Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CFP: CULTURES OF NATURE CALL FOR PAPERS: CULTURES OF NATURE The Environmental Studies Discussion Group within the Society for Literature and Science will host a series of panels at the 14th annual SLS conference, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 5-8, 2000, at the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel. The conference is sponsored by --the Ivan Allan College of the Georgia Institute of Technology, --the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and --the Center for New Media Studies. For more information, visit the conference web site at http://sls2000.lcc.gatech.edu/ The Environmental Studies Discussion Group invites papers on the theory and practice of analyzing cultures of nature, both historical and contemporary. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, the following: o the cultural work of public natural spaces, o the environmental history of Nature's Nation, o the digital machine in the virtual garden, o ecotourism and uneven development, o jobs vs. trees, o neo-romantic naturism and the idea of wilderness, o the significance of the Battle of Seattle, o representations of environmental apocalypse, o ecological revolutions and red-green symbiosis, o international capitalism and the global environment. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts by March 1, 2000 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Lance Newman Literature, Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0165 SLS Environmental Studies Discussion Group Chairs: Richard Grusin, Lance Newman, Kavita Philip ===== ----------------------------------------------- Lance Newman School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0165 404-894-1023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
