We're excited to announce this. Apologies for any duplicate/cross posting.
SAVE THE DATE: Registration now open! Left Coast Political Ecology Workshop: Why Political Ecology Now? 26-28 January 2018 University of California, Berkeley Please join Left Coast Political Ecology <http://www.leftcoastpoliticalecology.org/> for a 2-day workshop addressing the question of political ecology’s responsibility in the present moment. Theoretically, in this workshop we aim to engender conversations around political ecology’s (PE’s) current engagements with racism and colonialism, as well as how we might strengthen our work toward anti-capitalist and anti-fascist ends. These questions are also methodological. The weekend will include workshops on research methods that help us extend our work with non-academic communities and develop tools for critical ethnography and participatory research. We hope to cultivate a collective dialogue among West coast scholars at all stages of their careers, as well as to provide opportunities for new collaborations and senior-junior mentorships to grow. Our aim is to gather an intimate group for a two-day workshop aimed at building our own internal networks, and building out towards future collaboration and cross-pollination. We hope people will come away from this event with new directions or stronger convictions of existing paths in their own PE research and/or activism. We hope for an invigorating weekend together. The workshop will feature a keynote talk by Dr. Jade Sasser, “Climate Activism, Reproductive Justice, and Anticipation: Navigating the Intersections,” followed by a Q&A, from 6:30-7:30 pm on Friday, January 26, 2018. Bio: Jade S. Sasser is Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy & Management and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MPH from Boston University. Her forthcoming book manuscript, Making Sexual Stewards: Population, Climate Activism, and Social Justice in the New Millennium, explores activism linking climate change with women’s reproductive rights in international development. Her broader research interests are focused on gender and environment, international development, and women’s health. Registration now open! More information on costs and logistics for the workshop will come in early December. We aim to make this workshop financially and physically accessible to attendees, particularly graduate students and community activists. Learn more about LCPE and start your registration at http:// leftcoastpoliticalecology.org Who are we? Left Coast Political Ecology (LCPE) is an interdisciplinary cohort of political ecologists, formed in 2014 by a group of PhD students and faculty located along the West Coast of the United States and Canada. “LCPE” has expanded over the years to indicate a critical commitment that exceeds geographic as well as disciplinary boundaries. Through workshops, mentorship, public scholarship, and collaborative research, we seek to create venues for critical dialogue around emerging methodological and theoretical horizons in political ecology. We welcome new members at all stages of their scholarly development and with any affiliation. Please contact us at [email protected] to join our listserv. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
