*Community, Culture, and Conservation: Sustaining Landscapes and Livelihoods*
*Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA* *April 7-9, 2016* Colby College is hosting a conference April 7-9, 2016 around the theme of Community, Culture, and Conservation: Sustaining Landscapes and Livelihoods. The conference is bringing together noted writers, scholars, performers, public officials, and community members to facilitate discussion, make connections, and find solutions to economic and conservation challenges faced by communities in Maine, New England, the country, and the world. Confirmed speakers include: Bill McKibben, award-winning author, activist, and founder of 350.org; Terry Tempest Williams, award winning author; Peter Forbes, co-founder and director of the Center for Whole Communities; Wesley McNair, Poet Laureate of Maine; Lucas St. Clair, Board Member of the Quimby Family Foundation and Elliotsville Plantation, Inc.; Terry Anderson, Former President and Executive Director, Property and Environment Research Center and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Jim Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation, Harvard University and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Bradford Gentry, Director, Research Program on Private Investment and Environment, Yale, among many others. The primary Colby sponsors of this event are: the Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Colby College Museum of Art. The conference coincides with the 100th anniversary in 2016 of the Organic Act, the law that created the US National Park Service, as well as the centenary of the establishment of Sieur de Monts National Monument, now Acadia National Park, the first national park east of the Mississippi River. *REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS* The organizing committee invites scholars, practitioners, artists and writers, and undergraduate and graduate students to submit abstracts for sessions, talks, poster presentations, and creative contributions that address the conference theme of Community, Culture, and Conservation. Abstracts must be submitted to and accepted by the conference organizers to be included in the conference. The contest submission deadline is *February 15, 2016*. For submission guidelines, registration, updates, and additional information about the conference, please visit: http://web.colby.edu/communitycultureconservation/ *Format:* Please send abstracts by email to *communitycultureconservat...@colby.edu <communitycultureconservat...@colby.edu>*. Please include the following information in the email: author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), requested presentation type (talk or poster), contact email, copy of the full abstract pasted into the body of the email. Students should clearly identify themselves as undergraduate or graduate students and will typically be expected to present a poster. Please contact the conference organizers before submitting requests for session proposals or creative contributions. Posters should be approximately 36″ tall by 48″ wide. Authors of posters will be responsible for printing their own work.
