FYI...Stefanie
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
The North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and
Community
February 19-21, 1998
Hosted by the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities
at the University of Nevada, Reno
A gathering of scholars (representing such fields as biology, economics,
geology, history, literary studies, philosophy, and psychology), artists,
natural resource managers, ranchers, rural dwellers and city dwellers,
government officials, and recreational wilderness users. We hope to
include participants from across the United States and are actively
seeking speakers from Canada and Mexico; international participants from
other parts of the world are welcome, too.
FEATURING:
David Abram, Keith Basso, Sam Bingham, Daniel Botkin, Michael P. Cohen,
Suzi Gablik, Robert Haas, Barry Lopez, Carolyn Merchant, Pattiann Rogers,
Hal K. Rothman, Sharman Apt Russell, Rebecca Solnit, Judy Temple (as mary
Austin), Kaylynn Two Trees, Patrick Zentz, and other distinguished
speakers. (Not all of these speakers have been confirmed for the
conference as of July 1997)
We invite submissions of abstracts, completed papers (fifteen-minute
reading time), suggestions for roundtable discussion sessions, workshops,
and traditional paper panels. Please direct inquiries and submissions by 1
December 1997 to:
Professor Scott Slovic, Director
Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno NV 89557
Phone: 702-784-8015
Fax: 702-784-6266
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POSSIBLE TOPICS: environmental activism in developing nations; environment
and the visual arts; indigenous cultures and natural resources; art,
literature, and community-building; sense of place; sense of time; living
off the land; urban nature; Deep Ecology; Wise Use; government and
community cooperation; ecocriticism; tourism
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 56
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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