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DOPE 2016: CALL FOR ORGANIZED SESSIONS AND CFPs Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference February 26 – 27, 2016 University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky, USA The University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group cordially invites you to participate in the sixth annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference (DOPE 2016) February 26-27, 2016, in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. A preliminary schedule is available on our website, www.politicalecology.org. DOPE has emerged as a key international forum for graduate students and faculty in all career stages to foster interdisciplinary discussions of a wide variety of topics including rural social movements; food systems; complexity in ecological and social systems; decolonization, knowledge, and difference; neoliberal natures and climate justice; and feminist political ecologies, among many more. A central factor in this success has been innovative participant-organized sessions that reflect the wide range of cutting-edge research currently taking place in political ecology. Thus, we encourage you to contribute by organizing a session for DOPE 2016. The conference is open to any topical, theoretical, or methodological framework that brings together scholarship on the ecological dimensions of political, social, and economic research, as well as the social aspects of natural sciences. In particular we invite participation in a special conference track. Ecologies of Food, Agriculture & Justice will put innovative scholarship, scholar-activist collaborators, and community outreach initiatives into dynamic conversation to approach issues in agriculture, food, nutrition, environment, energy, and community. CALL FOR ORGANIZED SESSIONS The DOPE Organizers strongly encourage participants to organize their own sessions, or to join sessions organized by other participants, rather than submit individual ‘orphan’ papers. To organize your own session, please: 1. Draft a call for papers (CFP). For guidance, reference the wide variety of CFPs from previous DOPE conferences, available via www.politicalecology.org. 2. Email your CFP to the DOPE Organizers at [email protected]. We will help you to circulate your CFP by posting it on our website and via social media, but you should also distribute it among your colleagues and to relevant disciplinary listservs. 3. Please read further below for details about online registration, which will open October 1, 2015. All participants in your session must have registered and paid by the final registration deadline. As such, we suggest you set the deadline to respond to your CFP at least a week prior to December 1, 2015, the conference registration deadline. 4. After you have submitted your call, we will send you a Google Form that you will have to complete. This will confirm the final composition of your panel, including participants’ names, institutions, abstracts (300 word limit), titles, keywords, discussants, organizers, chairs, and other relevant information. We will ask that you be as detailed as possible and send this information before the final registration deadline (December 1, 2015). Guidelines and Suggestions for Session Organizers • When planning, remember that each session is 100 minutes long, and we strictly limit organizers to two session slots for reasons pertaining to space and time constraints. • We encourage you to think more broadly than traditional paper sessions - consider workshops, panel discussions, lightning talks, or other alternative session styles. Please email the DOPE Organizers ( [email protected]) if you have questions or concerns about organizing a session. • Each DOPE participant may present in one session, and also serve as a discussant or panelist in ONE additional session. We ask that participants limit themselves to two conference activities, at most, due to scheduling limitations. • Undergraduates are asked to submit their papers to our Annual Undergraduate Symposium. INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS We strongly encourage participants to submit abstracts in response to CFPs being circulated (follow listservs and check www.politicalecology.org for new CFPs); however, we will accept individual abstracts. Abstracts submitted to the conference individually rather than in response to specific CFPs will be sorted thematically, and cannot be guaranteed placement in the conference schedule. Abstracts or proposals should be no more than 300 words in length and include titles and three to five keywords. Please submit only one abstract. The deadline for abstract submissions is the conference registration deadline (December 1, 2015). ONLINE REGISTRATION Registration will be linked from www.politicalecology.org beginning October 1, 2015, and ending December 1, 2015, WITH NO EXTENSIONS. The conference registration fee is $35 for graduate students, and $70 for faculty and non-academics/practitioners. There is no fee for undergraduate participants. All University of Kentucky students and faculty register for free. Follow us on Twitter at @ukpewg or on Facebook as the University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group. Visit our website www.politicalecology.org. Please send any questions to the DOPE Organizers at [email protected] . Dr. Patrick Bigger | Marie Curie Research Fellow | EU Network for Political Ecology School of Environment, Education, and Development | University of Manchester @patrickmbigger | [email protected] | www.politicalecology.eu
