{"id":6916,"date":"2013-09-18T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2013-09-18T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:39:10","slug":"under-western-skies-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/09\/18\/under-western-skies-cfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Western Skies CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skies.mtroyal.ca\/files\/2011\/11\/DSC_8134-e1321559720581.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skies.mtroyal.ca\/files\/2011\/11\/DSC_8134-e1321559720581-300x246.jpg?resize=225%2C184\" width=\"225\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Under Western Skies: <b>Intersections of Environments, Technologies, and Communities<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 9 \u2013 13, 2014<br \/>\nMount Royal University<br \/>\nCalgary, AB CANADA<\/p>\n<p><i>Under Western Skies<\/i> is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment.\u00a0The third conference welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address collectively the environmental challenges faced by human and nonhuman actors.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is held on the Mount Royal University campus (Calgary, Alberta, CANADA) in the LEED Gold-certified Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speakers for the 2014 conference include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/elphinstone\/staff\/details.php?id=tim.ingold\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Ingold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/%7Eaivakhiv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Ivakhiv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bruno-latour.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Latour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centerwest.org\/about\/patty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patty Limerick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brontaylor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bron Taylor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><!--more-->Call for Proposals and Panels<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is a call for contributions from all environmental fields of inquiry and endeavor, including the humanities, natural and social sciences, public policy, business, and law. \u00a0Artistic, creative, and non-academic proposals are also welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skies.mtroyal.ca\/\">Click here for the complete call, including a list of possible topics <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A selection of papers will go forward for an edited book publication following UWS 2014. The collection of edited papers stemming from <i>UWS 2010<\/i> is forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press as a part of its Environmental Humanities Series (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlupress.wlu.ca\/press\/Catalog\/boschman.shtml\">http:\/\/www.wlupress.wlu.ca\/press\/Catalog\/boschman.shtml<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Closing Date:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0January 10, 2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Western Skies: Intersections of Environments, Technologies, and Communities September 9 \u2013 13, 2014 Mount Royal University Calgary, AB CANADA Under Western Skies is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment.\u00a0The third conference welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and [&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-6916","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-1Ny","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7767,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/08\/27\/under-western-skies-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":6916,"position":0},"title":"Under Western Skies 3","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"August 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The preliminary program is up for the third\u00a0Under Western Skies conference, \"Intersections of Environments, Technologies, Communities,\" which will be held in a couple of weeks at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. 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I think the biennial UWS gatherings are becoming one of the leading interdisciplinary forums\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academe&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7782,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/11\/offshore\/","url_meta":{"origin":6916,"position":1},"title":"Offshore","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been enjoying Under Western Skies 3: Environments, Technologies, Communities, which has featured a wonderful array of critical environmental theorists and practitioners -- including among its keynotes Justice Thomas Berger (whose 1978-8 Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry Report\u00a0was a classic of environmental legal innovation), the indigenous activist group Idle No More,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media ecology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media ecology","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/media_ecology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Offshore","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2014\/09\/Offshore-275x153.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7808,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/12\/winona-laduke-at-uws3\/","url_meta":{"origin":6916,"position":2},"title":"Winona LaDuke at UWS3","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Winona LaDuke's talk (at Under Western Skies 3) was, as always, powerful and empowering. 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