{"id":2123,"date":"2011-01-05T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2011-01-05T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T19:51:18","slug":"aess-confronting-complexity-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/01\/05\/aess-confronting-complexity-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"AESS Confronting Complexity conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really should be promoting this more than I have, since my colleagues are working hard at organizing it. The theme lends itself well to the kinds of topics discussed on this   blog, and the association is very interdisciplinary, spanning across  the  natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. It would  be  great to see some of you here this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if anyone is   interested in co-organizing a session on  film\/media, complexity and the ontology of socio-ecological relations, or something  related. Unfortunately the conference  conflicts with both the ASLE   (Association for Literature and  Environment) and ECN (Conference on   Communication and Environment)  conferences (in Bloomington, Indiana, and El Paso, Texas, respectively), but if you aren&#8217;t going to   either, Burlington (and  Vermont) are great places to visit in late June.<\/p>\n<p>Info:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences 2011 Conference &#8220;Confronting Complexity&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 23-26, 2011, Burlington, Vermont. Hosted by the University of Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Plenary speakers will include climatologist Heidi Cullen and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (invited).<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the conference or to submit a proposal, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aess.info\/2011\" target=\"_blank\">www.aess.info\/2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the session proposal deadline has been extended to January 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really should be promoting this more than I have, since my colleagues are working hard at organizing it. The theme lends itself well to the kinds of topics discussed on this blog, and the association is very interdisciplinary, spanning across the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. It would be great to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-yf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1039,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/03\/13\/cultural-studies-biosemiotic-turn\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":0},"title":"cultural studies&#8217; biosemiotic turn?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the impressive recent efforts to bring the physical sciences and the social sciences and humanities back onto \"consilient\" speaking terms (to use E. 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