Call for Papers: Philadelphia’s Relationship with the Environment

Posted by on January 02, 2011

Call for Papers: Philadelphia’s Relationship with the Environment

As part of Sustainability Week and other planned celebrations of arts and humanities at Temple University in April 2011, a multidisciplinary symposium, GRID + flow, will feature presentations on the topic of people’s relationship to the environment in urban centers, especially, in the context of environmental justice and climate change. The Symposium is requesting proposals by faculty, professionals and advanced graduate students. Please submit your 250-word abstract for a 20-minute paper, plus a one-page CV, by email to braddock@temple.edu by January 7, 2011.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

On April 7-8, 2011, Temple University will host an interdisciplinary symposium, “Grid + Flow: Philadelphia and Beyond – Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies through the Arts and Humanities.”

New interdisciplinary currents in the environmental humanities – including environmental history, ecocriticism, cultural geography, environmental media studies, and environmental ethics – offer opportunities for understanding and interpreting the interaction between people and the non-human environment in urban places.

The organizers of “Grid + Flow” invite proposals for papers in the environmental humanities addressing aspects of Philadelphia’s relationship with non-human nature.  Especially welcome will be proposals that examine the history and current state of Philadelphia’s urban ecology in light of broader regional, national, and transnational environmental concerns such as sustainability, environmental justice, and climate change.  Organized by Alan C. Braddock (Art History), Peter d’Agostino (Film and Media Arts), and Andrew Isenberg (History), the symposium will be part of a larger program of events at Temple University in the environmental humanities, including Sustainability Week and a new media arts installation.

This free, public symposium will be held at Temple University’s Main Campus in north Philadelphia.  It will open with a keynote address by a leading scholar of urban ecology in the environmental humanities on Thursday evening, April 7.  The symposium will proceed on Friday, April 8, with a day-long series of 20-minute talks and discussion, followed by a reception for all participants and the audience.

Faculty, professionals, and advanced graduate students are invited to submit proposals.  Please submit one-page CV and 250-word abstract for a 20-minute paper via e-mail to braddock@temple.edu by January 7, 2011.