A gathering place for faculty and students in Arts at the University of Alberta interested in environmental studies and issues
The Arts Environmental Studies Consortium was created in spring 2012 by a group of scholars based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. We believe there is a need for a regular forum for the exchange of information and for discussion of developments concerning environmental teaching and research at the university. The […]
Please join us for Cultures of Energy iX: New Directions in Energy Humanities! On May 27-28, 2021, the Center for Environmental Studies hosts Rice’s 9th Cultures of Energy symposium, marking a decade of conversations about energy from the point of view of humanists, artists, and social scientists. This year we’re featuring the voices of emerging scholars in sessions organized […]
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o-nP-9siTX-0FobR69tm2w
Wednesday April 7 at Noon, we present our final lecture of the term. Joëlle Saey-Volckrick is a lecturer on ecological economics and coordinates degrowth.info. With her colleague Nick von Andrian, they will explain what the economics of degrowth means, and how it can help shape a sustainable recovery from COVID-19. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/degrowth-in-the-time-of-covid-19-tickets-147021911495?aff=snews
Call for Papers | International Research Workshop | 18-19 November, 2021Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN)Vienna University of Economics and BusinessDepartment of SocioeconomicsConvenors: Margaret Haderer, Hauke Dannemann, Ingolfur Blühdorn This international, 2-day research workshop is concerned with understanding, locating, and theorizingcurrent portrayals of the city as a key laboratory for tackling social-ecological crises, climate […]
Some of the questions asked will address ways in which rural Europe offers valuable templates for building more resilient, prosperous, and sustainable societies, what we have learned in recent decades about the role of food systems in protecting biodiversity, and how the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change have underscored the need to abandon old […]
“Lobbying for (in)action: Climate Emergence, Interest Groups and Denial” Important dates • Conference dates: 26-27 May 2021• Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2021• Notification of acceptance: 25 April 2021• Deadline for registration and conference fee payment: 10 May 2021 Full-length manuscript deadline (compulsory only if you want to be eligible for publication of your paper in a special issue in the […]
The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3-year PhD-position within International Environment and Development Studies. This PhD position will produce knowledge to govern transformations towards a just and safe operating space for the economy, advancing our understanding […]
The University of Vigo offers 4 PhD student positions for conducting a PhD within the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) project “PROSPERA”, led by Dr. Mario Pansera. The successful candidates will join the Post-growth InnovationLab at the University of Vigo. Deadline: 31 March 2021Contact: Dr Mario Pansera, mario.pansera@uvigo.esFurther information
The School of Social and Political Science at the University of Glasgow is seeking a Chair in Wellbeing Economics to take a senior leadership role in the development of an ambitious research and educational agenda to promote the wellbeing economy. Deadline: 6 April 2021Contact: Professor Anne Kerr, Anne.Kerr@glasgow.ac.ukFurther information
ESPAnet’s 18th Annual and first online conference is being hosted by the Social Policy and Social Work Team of the KU Leuven Centre for Sociological Research in Belgium. Papers are invited for submission for Stream 2, the challenges of eco-social transitions in a time of crisis. In particular, papers are invited examining conflicts, trade-offs, or positive synergies between […]
