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NT10: Ian Bogost (& Grusin closing)

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged on May 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Bogost’s talk not being streamed (by his request). Ian Bogost, “The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry” A talk about philosophy and the objects of which it’s made, in 12 parts (first 11 are pretend) I. Enjoying This Presentation II. The Things We Do: Airport tarmac. Philosophers in a lecture hall not unlike an aircraft approaching the […]

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NT3: Grusin “Why nonhuman now?”

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged on May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Day 2 at The Nonhuman Turn. Richard Grusin: Why Nonhuman? Why Now? The CFP for this conference elicited lively comments and concerns on Facebook walls (Ken Wark’s and Alex Galloway’s): expression of “turn fatigue” (:-) [ai: my first proposal was about just that], and a concern that this would ipso facto be a conference of […]

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IAEP call for papers

Posted in Academe, tagged on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

CALL FOR PAPERS Meeting of The International Association for Environmental Philosophy at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association—Eastern Division December 27-30, 2012, Marriott Atlanta Marquis, Atlanta, GA

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Nature & the Popular Imagination (redux)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We’re getting some good submissions, but there’s room for more. The deadline for proposals has been extended to May 1. I’m sharing the call for papers again here… The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) is pleased to announce its next conference in Malibu, California at Pepperdine University in August […]

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Just slackin’

Posted in Academe on March 27, 2012 | 8 Comments »

The level of stupidity on display in David Levy’s Washington Post article Do college professors work hard enough? is astounding. While Levy portrays himself as a life-long educator and academic and a “former chancellor of the New School University,” his article only reflects the growing disconnect between those who educate and those who administer and […]

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The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »

What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]

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Not drowning, just coming up for air & waving

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on November 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I owe regular readers an explanation for the lengthy hiatus on this blog. As I had predicted would happen back in the summer, this semester turned into an extremely busy one for me. Directing the Environmental Studies program at the University of Vermont is a large part of that busyness: it’s a large, interdisciplinary and […]

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Environmental philosopher sought…

Posted in Academe on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It’s rare enough to see a tenure-track position open up in Environmental Philosophy. (And Continental, to boot…) I’ll take that as a good sign… Subject: Tenure-track position in Environmental Philosophy Colby College COLBY COLLEGE, Waterville, ME.

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Political Ecology position

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We’re been given the green light to announce the following tenure-track position in Environmental Studies and Geography. I’m chairing the Search Committee. Please pass it on to anyone you think will be interested. Review of applications will begin November 15.  The Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont invite […]

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Good news, bad news…

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »

As I think about our Environmental Studies curriculum (I’m Acting Director this semester) and start to think about my Nature and Culture course (which I’ll be teaching in January), I come around to the question of how to conceptualize the fraught relationship between humans and everything else. The Nature and Culture course offers tools for […]

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Natura Loquens (CFP)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture on August 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been waiting for this particular call for papers… I hope to see some of you there in Tenerife! “NATURA LOQUENS:” ERUPTIVE DIALOGUES, DISRUPTIVE DISCOURSES Contributions are invited for the 5th EASLCE International Conference on “Natura Loquens: Eruptive Dialogues, Disruptive Discourses,” to be held in Tenerife, Canaries, SPAIN, 27-30 June 2012. The event is organised […]

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Nature & the Popular Imagination

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , on August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I’m helping to organize this conference. Nature, Hollywood, eco-apocalypse, and the Malibu coast (the one that Mike Davis says we should let burn)… Can you resist? NATURE & THE POPULAR IMAGINATION The Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 8-11 August 2010, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (USA) […]

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