This site announces upcoming conferences of interest to environmental justice cultural studies scholars and activists.
- Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship 6th annual conference, 2nd July - 5th July 2007:
Mansfield College, Oxford
Below is the archived link to the conference out of which the Environmental Justice Culture Studies site orginally grew.
[NOTE: You have reached the archived homepage for an online conference entitled, "Cultures and Environments" held in June 1997. The conference occurred in cyberspace hosted by the American Studies program of Washington State University. It would be nice to say that a decade later the work of this conference has become redundant, but in fact cultural environmental studies remains a field in need of much development, especially in its environmental justice form.
We have left the online structure in place because we have received a number of requests both about the content of the conference and about the online structure. We hope the site remains useful, and we welcome comments and requests for the papers abstracted herein.
e third of the conference papers can still be accessed; the remaining have been taken down by request. Links to chat rooms, and the listserv, are no longer active.]
* Conference Description *
* How this On-line Conference Will Work: The Help Page *
* Access to Paper Panels *
* Chat Room Discussion Time Schedule *
* Entry Point for the Chat Rooms *
* Cultural Environmental Studies Learning Modules ** Listserv on Cultures and Environments *
* Annotated Bibliography on Cultural Environmental Studies *
* Links to Related Cultural Environmental Studies Sites *
This conference seeks to explore the relatively unmapped terrain where cultural studies (broadly conceived) and environmental studies (broadly conceived) meet, overlap, and enter into dialogue. What is "cultural environmental studies," or "environmental cultural studies"? What does the field(s) look like now and what new directions are desirable? What are the core issues, concepts, values, questions, pedagogies? To what extent can we speak of nature or the environment as a "social construction"? In what ways do cultural questions shape the production and reception of scientific and social scientific knowledge of the environment? In what ways do cultural assumptions shape the terms used in this discussion (i.e., are words like "nature," "culture," and "environment" themselves hopelessly ethnocentric or otherwise culture-bound in destructive ways)? How do issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and their intersections shape our perceptions of environments and environmental issues? How can the kinds of questions listed above be brought into the classroom at various educational levels, and into teaching situations outside the classroom?The conference seeks to build on important existing academic and movement work, connect up folks doing related things, and help chart future directions and actions inside and outside of the academy.
CONFERENCE COMPONENTS INCLUDE:- CONFERENCE PAPERS available in on-line panels. Most panels include brief comments by a designated commentator.
- Spaces for on-line OPEN RESPONSES to particular papers from any participant.
- Special section on ENVIRONMENTAL ART on-line and off.
- A set of TEACHING MATERIALS, including two course syllabi and learning modules on "cultural environmental studies" created by faculty and students at Washington State University that will be available on-line for commentary, critique and discussion.
- CHAT ROOMS set aside on June 20-22 for "live" ON-LINE DISCUSSIONS:
- CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN AND OUT
OF SCHOOL
[Fri 6/20/97 1:30-3:00pm PDT] - THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
[Sat 6/21/97 10:30am-12:00pm PDT] - INDIGENOUS NATURES, WESTERN NATURES
[Sat 6/21/97 2:OO-3:30pm PDT] - SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND THE REALITIES
OF NATURE
[Sun 6/22 10:30am-12pm PDT] - FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
[Sun 6/22 2:00-3:30pm PDT]
You gain entry to the chat room by CLICKING HERE.
AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE CONFERENCE an ongoing CULTURES AND ENVIRONMENTS LISTSERV will begin after the conference to continue the discussions, share information and raise a host of issues and concerns for all those interested in "green cultural studies."
To subscribe to the listserv now, please send the following message to listproc@listproc.wsu.edu "sub Cultures-Environments your name" (be sure to include the hyphen)