Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
CFP: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Under Western Skies is Mount Royal University’s award-winning biennial conference series on the environment in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
With the inaugural UWS conference in October 2010, Mount Royal has taken a lead role in interdisciplinary and community-minded environmental studies in Alberta, establishing a high-profile venue where scholars, artists, students, and concerned citizens from around the world can gather on a regular basis to share ideas concerning all aspects of the environment.
Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America will take place October 10 – 13, 2012 in the university’s LEED certified Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning.
The conference welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, media, and NGOs to address the environmental challenges faced by human and nonhuman actors across North America.
Confirmed keynotes include:
Scott Denning (Climatology, Colorado State University)
Louise B. Halfe (award-winning Canadian poet)
Alanna Mitchell (author Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis)
Gary Paul Nabhan (Ethnobotany, University of Arizona)
Niobe Thompson (co-director Tipping Point: The Age of the Oilsands)
Donald Worster (Environmental History, University of Kansas)
Call for Proposals Deadline is Jan 23, 2012. See the website for the full call for papers.
