FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Listmembers:
an interdisciplinary conference.
Posting by:
Jo-Ann Pilardi
Towson U., MD
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(submission info. below).
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> IMPLACEMENTS/DIS-PLACEMENTS
> EARTHBOUND CONVERSATIONS
>
> The Society for Philosophy and Geography will hold its Third Annual
> Conference at Towson University, Towson Maryland, April, 27-29, 2001.
> This year's topic concerns the dynamics of implacements/dis-placements
> and their implications (roots/uproots) for the inhabitants of the
> earth. Recognizing not only our own rootedness on earth but also the
> rootedness of our conversations, we will engage in interdisciplinary
> conversations that bear on theoretical and practical problems.
>
> Sub-Topics (other relevant topics are welcome)
> Terrain as Territory Spirit
of Place
> Domesticated Places/Wild Places
Proprietization of the Earth
> Gendering of the Earth
Poetics of the Earth
> Cosmopolitanism/Localism
Alienation of Place
> Geography and Technological Change
Epistemology of Mapping
> Public Places/Private Places
Geopolitics
> Traditional Narratives of Home and World Earth
and Economics
> Cultural Migration and Territory
> Normative History of Cartography
> Transportational Space
Demography and Geography
> Agricultural Ethics and Politics
Metaphysics of Deep Time
> Environmental Design and Architecture
Commodification of the Earth
> Gaia and its Critics Ethics
and Geology
>
> Papers or presentations should not exceed 25 minutes. Because this is
> an interdisciplinary conference, speakers are requested to consider
the
> audience diversity as they prepare their presentations. Accepted
papers
> may be submitted for publication in the Society's journal. Send
> abstracts of approximately 200 words by February 10, 2001.
>
> For further information contact:
> John Murungi, Chair,
> Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
> Towson University
> Towson, Maryland 21252-0001
> Tel: (410) 830-2755 Fax: (410) 830-4398
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Send all abstracts by e-mail to:
> Gary Backhaus, program coordinator
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Persons who are interested in serving as session chairs should contact
> Gary Backhaus.
>
> Towson State is located in Towson, Maryland, which is approximately 4
> miles North of downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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