CALL FOR PROPOSALS! “Just Transitions: How Can We Fight the Climate Crisis and Achieve Economic and Social Justice?” April 3-5, 2025 University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103 Event Overview: The urgency of the climate crisis has sparked movements calling for the immediate shut down of polluting industries such as coal plants, pipelines, and refineries while promoting green infrastructure and electric vehicles, thus ushering in a new, “green economy.” Proponents of the “green economy” often discuss public health
Author: Kathleen Lynch
2025 International i-Rec conference and student competition! (Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, May 27-29)
The 11th i-Rec conference (workshop, student competition and fieldwork) explores processes, actors, initiatives, and decisions in three main areas: disaster risk reduction, climate action, and post-disaster reconstruction. The event, titled (in)formalities, recognizes that multiple forms of agency with different levels of legitimacy, influence, and recognition coexist and must be understood and coordinated to produce positive, sustainable change. The 2025 edition of the i-Rec conference seeks to understand relationships between top-down and bottom-up actions, and different forms of “formality”
CFP: Katrina’s America; A Special Issue of Southern Cultures (Deadline: 16 December, 2024)
Call for Papers: Katrina’s America Guest Editor: Andy Horowitz (University of Connecticut) Katrina’s America,” a special issue of Southern Cultures considering Katrina 20 years after the flood Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Katrina’s America, to be published Fall 2025. We will accept submissions for this issue through December 16, 2024. Nearly twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina sent a storm
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