FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- The X International Conference Society for Human Ecology, Living With the Land: Interdisciplinary Research for Adaptive Decision Making, McGill University, Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada, 27-30 May 1999. Hybrid Spaces in Human Ecology Recently it has been argued that we are at the 'end of nature' because of the ever-accelerating transformation of our living space, and ot the Earth as a whole, into humanly fashioned artefacts. This prompts an investigation into those spaces where nature either irrupts or flourishes despite human artifice. In other words, it is of interest in this constellation of events to carry out an analysis of the ways and places in which cohabitation between human beings and non-human nature can be, and has been, enabled in actually existing human ecologies, and of the ways and spaces in which, despite assurances to the contrary, nature and the wild are mere ingredients in human artefactuality. Finally the question arises whether it even makes any sense to speak of human ecology if our environment, and even our bodies, have become artefacts. That is, does the notion of oikos not require a non-artefactual surrounds in order to make sense? Papers, 20 minutes reading time, are invited addressing the problematic outlined above. Statements of interest and abstracts should be sent as soon as possible. Papers should be sent by Jan. 15th, 1999. (Appropriate papers may be considered for inclusion in a volume on Autonomous Nature in Hybrid Spaces presently in preparation.) Dr. Thomas Heyd, Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P4, Canada. Fax 250 - 721 7511. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 250 - 381 2239. ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
