[AIW] "Nature and Culture, " 2 North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, June 13-15, 2012.

[AIW - Bartl]

International Interdisciplinary Conference: Nature and Culture June 13-15,
2012 at the North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia

 

Recent years have seen an increasing academic interest in the cultural
implications of the human role in, and impact on, the environment. We are
concerned with representations of nature and the understanding, uses and
abuses of environments. The American Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment (ASLE) was founded in 1992, now having a number of
international affiliates in Europe and Asia. Research networks such as the
Scandinavian Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) have
brought together scientists with an interest in the cultural repercussions
of their work and humanists with an interest in the environment. A common
object of study, the environment, unites many diverse fields as the natural
sciences, architecture, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, and
pedagogy, among others. The aim of the conference is to bring together
Russian and international scholars from different fields and a common
interest in the environment with the aim of further developing a Russian
perspective in the international discourse of the environmental humanities.
The conference will be the first step in forming a research network. It is
planned to publish a selection of the conference papers in book form.
Conference languages are Russian and English; simultaneous interpretation
and translation will be provided.

Topics for presentations and roundtable discussions

*         Philosophical, scientific and technical issues in the interaction
of culture and nature

*         Cultural landscape: history and present

*         Nature as a social space

*         Nature in the worldview of different cultures

*         Nature imagery in the structure of ethnic identity

*         Cultural landscape and Ecotourism

*         Cultural geography and the image of the North in literature and
art

*         Mega-projects and environmental sustainability in the North

Call for papers: Please send your abstract (Russian or English, 300-400
words) to both addresses below before March 31, 2012.

Contact:

Anastasia Kharabaeva, e-mail
<mailto:skao1 at yandex.ru%3cmailto:skao1 at yandex.ru>
skao1 at yandex.ru<mailto:skao1 at yandex.ru>, phone +7964 423 03 22

                        Werner Bigell, e-mail
<mailto:werner.bigell at hifm.no%3cmailto:werner.bigell at hifm.no>
werner.bigell at hifm.no<mailto:werner.bigell at hifm.no>,
<mailto:werner_bigell at yahoo.es> werner_bigell at yahoo.es, phone +47-90604507

URL:
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