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Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Graduate Scholarship Conference
Ecologies: Rethinking Nature/Culture
The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC) is
announcing a call for papers for its annual graduate scholarship
conference, scheduled for November 15, 1996. The theme this year is
"Ecologies: Rethinking Nature/Culture." This conference seeks to explore
appropriate redefinitions of "ecology" by focusing on the politics,
theoretical implications, cultural analysis and intellectual history of
the nature/culture divide. CCACC encourages graduate students in all
disciplines to submit papers that investigate a
broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Urban ecologies, limits of "nature as discourse," possibility of
scientific objectivity, domination of nature or the production of nature,
rewriting nature writing, socio-biological restructuring of "race,"
ecologies of social reproduction, political economies of development,
indigeounous people's ecologies, ecofeminism and feminist environmentalism,
environmental racism, etc.
Papers should be 8-10 pages in length. Please send 4 copies of your
paper, a cover page that includes your address, telephone number, and
departmental/institutional affiliation, and a one-paragraph abstract (4
copies); relevent media (slides, audio/video tapes) should be noted.
Panel proposals will also be considered.
Deadline for Submission: September 30, 1996
Send papers to Vanessa A. Ignacio, CCACC, 8 Bishop Place, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Or for more information call (908) 932-8426.
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Centre for Resource Management/
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University
Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (64) (03) 325-2811 x8377
Fax: (64) (03) 325-3841
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