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Join us in revisiting the wonderful time had by all at the ESAC 2010 conference at Concordia University in Montreal. Feel free to share your experiences and impressions of the conference in the comments section. A special thank you to the photographer Shirley Thompson, the Communications Director of ESAC for sharing these pictures.
The environment has played a profoundly important role in shaping the
movement of people, objects, and ideas in Canadian history. In turn,
mobility (travel, transport, and traffic) has had significant impacts
on the environment, both in materially tangible ways and in terms of
how people have perceived and experienced Canada´s varied landscapes.
Canadian scholars have a long tradition of examining mobility and the
environment in the context of moving hinterland resources to
metropolitan markets. However, there are many other aspects of the
complex relationship between environments and mobility that deserve
closer scrutiny. This is a timely moment to broaden and build on the
existing Canadian literature in this area, for in addition to
environmental history´s emergence as a field of study in this country,
recent international developments in sociology, geography, and
technology studies have argued that mobility should be brought to the
foreground of the humanities and social sciences. We therefore invite
scholars from all fields and all parts of the country to contribute
papers to an edited collection that will explore natural and built
environments of mobility in Canada´s past. The goal of the collection
is to interrogate how the connections between mobility and the
environment have shaped Canada´s diverse regions and peoples.
We invite papers on a wide spectrum of historical topics, such as:
- the environmental consequences of specific modes of mobility
(including
walking, canoes, ships, bicycles, railways, automobiles, urban transit,
air travel)
- the impact of mobility on plant and animal life, soils, and bodies
of water
- mobility and the seasons
- recreational mobility´s impact on the environment
- mobility´s uneven environmental effects on different social groups
- how mobility, landscape, and the environment have been bound up with
local, regional, and social identities
- travel, tourism, and landscape experience
- the culture of commodity flows
- mobility, environment, and state formation
- mobility´s role in shaping Canadian social, scientific, and
environmental thought
- the challenges of moving through `dangerous´ environments
- mobility and (sub)urban environments
A workshop will be held in Toronto at York University´s Glendon campus
in early May 2011. Participants will be asked to write a rough draft of
their paper for pre-circulation in order to facilitate useful
commentary on each paper. The ultimate aim of the workshop is to create
a series of papers for publication in an edited collection on
environments of mobility in Canadian history. Please contact us with
expressions of interest by July 15, 2010. For more information, send
queries to ben.bradley@queensu.ca.
Workshop organizers:
Colin Coates
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes
Department of History
Glendon College
York University
Jay Young
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
York University
Ben Bradley
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
Queen´s University
Thanks to our keynote speaker Elizabeth May, panelists, delegate presenters, poster contest contributors, and special thanks to our book publishers for their kind book donations that were distributed as prizes, and thank you to all contributors of the ESAC conference 2010: Sustainability in a Changing World.
To look at the final schedule at a glance click here.
To get a full picture of the event see the abstracts here.
Read coverage of the event at greenlivingonline.com.
Dear Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) members and conference delegates:
Please find attached a revised ESAC Congress 2010 Conference program with abstracts, map and final schedule. This copy includes a new keynote speaker, Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader, Lawyer and author of seven books. She will be speaking on Post-Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations on May 31st from 2:00 to 3:00 in EV1-605. Some panels on May 31st have shifted times as a result of this change.NOTE: If you have pre-registered for the conference, you may pick up your delegate’s kit at the “Registered Delegates” counter located in the J.W.McConnell LibraryBuilding (LB) at Concordia at 1400 De Maisonneuve West. You can also register at this same location if you weren’t able to do so on-line. The registration centre opens at 7:30 every morning.
You can find a map of Concordia University by going to <http://concordia.ca/about/whereweare/maps/?referID=hp_footer> > .
Please note that the official agenda for the 2010 ESAC Conference has been released. There will be fascinating panel on a wide range of topics, from: ‘Food Policy and Sustainability’ to ‘Gender and Environment’ to ‘Climate Change in Bangladesh’, plus our outstanding Keynote Speakers Camilla Toulmin, Bina Agarwal and Desiree McGraw. The conference schedule is available for download here.
Panels include:
“Good Science and/or a Darn Good Read”
Widely accused of scientific dishonesty, Bjorn Lomborg, is nonetheless the author of an award-winning, best-selling, money-making book. The Skeptical Environmentalist, as Lomborg and his infamous book are known, may represent the extreme, but journalists, authors, TV and radio commentators are regularly faced with the dilemma of not bogging down a good story in scientific facts. For, as Stephen Bocking writes in Alternatives Journal, “While scientists can tell us about the extinction of species and the loss of Arctic sea ice, we need stories to help us make sense of these events.
This panel of three environmental communicators will discuss the tricks of the trade when it comes to good environmental story-telling and news reporting. They will highlight the best of environmental writing and point out the blunders. Nicola Ross, executive editor of Alternatives Journal, will lead the panel in a highly energetic thought-provoking discussion before inviting the audience to join in.
Panel Moderator:
Panelists include:
For more information on the 2010 ESAC Conference: ‘Sustainability in a Changing World’, which is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from May 31st to June 1st, please click here.
SPACE AND FLOWS: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AND EXTRAURBAN STUDIES
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, USA
4-5 December 2010
http://www.spacesandflows.com/conference-2010/
This conference aims to critically engage contemporary spatial, social, ideological, and political transformations in a transitional world. In a process-oriented world of movement, the global north and global south now simultaneously converge and diverge in a dialectic that shapes and transforms cities, suburbs , and rural areas. This conference addresses the nature and mapping of these forces and the dynamics that propel these changes. The conference also examines and defines the myriad of different spaces that make up our contemporary world, including urban, edgeurban, de-urban, micro-urban, greenfield, and off-the-grid.
In addition to plenary presentations, the Spaces and Flows Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers, and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may submit their written papers for publication in the peer reviewed ‘Spaces and Flows: An International Journal on Urban and Extraurban Studies’. If you are unable to attend the conference in person virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for referring and possible publication. You also have the ability to upload your presentation to the Space and Flows YouTube channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 May 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: http://www.spacesandflows.com/conference-2010/ .
We invite you to participate in the 2010 ESAC conference. It’s part of the 2010 Congress for the broad range of bodies that fall under the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
People from community groups, NGOs, practitioners, policy makers, (and of course the drivers of the conference: academics and students) are welcome to attend and actively participate. If you are interested in issues that involve climate change, food security, natural resources, millennium development goals, environmental health, environmental literacy and journalism tips that encompass all of the above, then this conference is for you.
In the spirit of passion for the planet and networking with your environment community, please join us at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec – May 31 to June 1, 2010
Cost of Attendance:
Member: $60
Non-Member: $90
Retired Member: $40
Retired Non-Member: $50
Student/Unwaged Member: $30
Student/Unwaged Non-Member: $40
Banquet: $35
Click here to complete your registration.
When registering for Congress 2010, one of the drop-down options will be to attend our banquet at the Spanish Club, scheduled for the evening of June 1st, that includes tapas and the choice of paella, lamb or a vegetarian option with a band and late night party with Canadian Association of Studies in International Development (CASID) for a cost of $35. This is an excellent opportunity for you to network and/or socialize with student and faculty colleagues.
Any questions please contact:
Dr. Shirley Thompson,
Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba,
70 Dysart Rd.,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
phone: (204) 474-7170 fax: 204-261-0038
e-mail: s_thompson@umanitoba.ca
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/
ESAC ACEE 2010 Paper Proposal Form
ESAC-ACEE-2010-Panel-proposal-form
Give your hard hours of research, classroom, or extra curricular work new life in an Informational Poster.
Send us your poster ideas – to be presented at the ESAC “Sustainability in a Changing World” Conference. The ESAC Conference, will be hosted by Congress 2010 in Montreal at Concordia University from Monday, May 31 to Tuesday, June 1, 2010.
Posters and presented information should reflect this years ESAC Conference theme of “Sustainability in a Changing World”. Posters will be unveiled at the ESAC Conference Gala where you will have a chance to discuss and present your work to other ESAC members and Conference Attendees.
What’s in it for me?
Benefits of submitting Your Informational Poster and attending ESAC’s “Sustainability in a Changing World” Conference:
Poster Eligibility:
Subsidies:
Spread the word about this great opportunity -
Click here to print a flyer promoting the Conference and ESAC’s Information Poster Contest.
About the ESAC Conference:
We invite you to participate in the 2010 ESAC conference. It’s part of the 2010 Congress for the broad range of bodies that fall under the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
People from community groups, NGOs, practitioners, policy makers, (and of course the drivers of the conference: academics and students) are welcome to attend and actively participate. If you are interested in issues that involve climate change, food security, natural resources, millennium development goals, environmental health, environmental literacy and journalism tips that encompass all of the above, then this conference is for you.
In the spirit of passion for the planet and networking with your environment community, please join us at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
May 31 to June 1, 2010
Click here for conference costs, subsidies, accommodation and other details.
Join Canada’s professional environmental association. Join ESAC today!
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENT – SPACES OF TRANSFORMATION – CALL FOR PAPERS
International Mini-Conference Tallinn, Oct 22-23, 2010
Network of Science and Literature Studies
http://www.teadusjakirjandus.utlib.ee/index2.html
Conference language: English Deadline: June 15, 2010
*Description* The conference will focus on plants and their intricate alliance with the environment they inhabit, whether as specimen of the life sciences, feeding crops, products of luxury spoiling our palate, or delighting our senses by their aesthetic beauty, to mention just a few of the variate procurements of plants on earth. In sketching how plant-spaces shaped Nature and Culture from the 17th century to nowadays, we want to discuss how our usage of plants has influenced and still influences transformations of natural and man-made habitats (whether rural landscapes or garden cities, fields or laboratories, factories or kitchens). In open discussions and short papers (ca. 15 min) we want to exchange ideas about the kingdom of plants in all its diversity. Our main objective is to initiate a collaboration of scholars, scientists and artists reflecting on and experimenting with plant-spaces, either set-up by or related to a natural object, a text, an image, or a technical device. To offer a most flexible framework the conference is structured around 6 themes:
- Plants in the museum and laboratory (natural history, botany, molecular plant biology, fine arts)
- Plants in texts and images (nature writing, art history, scientific articles and illustrations)
- Plants and biodiversity (plant-geography, functional ecology, greenmovement)
- Plants and people (food, economic botany, gardening, landscape architecture, urban planning)
- Medical plants (ethnobotany)
- Plants’ cloning and/or cloning plants (breeding, agriculture, transgenic plant science)
Key Speakers
Professor Dr. Mart Kalm, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Professor Dr. Urmas Kõljalg, University of Tartu and Natural History Museum, Estonia
Professor Dr. Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Centre, University of Munich, Germany
Professor Dr. Verena Winiwarter, University of Klagenfurt and University of Vienna, Austria
Call for Abstracts
We welcome contributions from a variety of scholars and scientists, not only specialists in environmental issues of plants, but also from such diverse fields like human geography, anthropology, art history, climatology, economy, landscape architecture and pharmacology. To engage in lively debates, we request for short papers that elucidate and advance the issues and thematic concerns of the transdisciplinary topic of plants in an environmental context. Although there is no limitation to any geographical region we are especially interested in papers dealing with the Baltic countries and the Russian Empire.
To propose a paper, please send an abstract (not more than 500 words) including title and full contact details to Sabine Brauckmann, sabine@ut.ee or Ulrike Plath, ulrike@utkk.ee. The deadline for submitting an abstract is June 15, 2010. We will inform about the accepted abstracts until July 1, 2010. Selected and reviewed papers will be published in a special volume of the Estonian Journal of Ecology in 2011. General information about the conference can be found at: http://www.teadusjakirjandus.utlib.ee/events.html