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
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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”
57th ITH Conference: The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster
Submission Deadline: 01/31/2022 — The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster Linz/Austria, 22–24 September 2022 The 2022 ITH conference takes from the present epidemiological crisis to reflect on other times of disaster and their implications for workers, organised labour and labour relations. This includes ecological disasters like earthquakes, floods or droughts; technological disasters such as Fukushima in 2011 or the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984; medical crises like epidemics or pandemics, such as the Black Death,
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2022 Boston Labor Conference: The Pandemic and the Working Class
Submission Deadline: 11/15/2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression and led to a massive contraction of the global economy. The resulting economic crisis has made the lives of many working people in the United States more vulnerable and precarious. We call for two types of papers to help us understand the impact of the health and economic crises on working people in the United States. (1) The Big Picture: We invite
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Conference: Natural Catastrophes in the United States – Making Sense of Risks and Vulnerability, 30. June – 02. July 2022, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University
Submission Deadline: 07/20/2021 — Drawing from an interdisciplinary perspective, this conference aims to investigate an array of specific U.S.-American factors regarding society, population shifts, the political system, or the economy that distinguishes the American experience from that of other countries dealing with natural catastrophes. Additionally, we want to examine the specific societal and cultural response as well as the specific discourses engaged with natural catastrophes in the U.S. Therefore, we are welcoming contributions from various fields such as
Emergency in the History of Political Thought
Submission Deadline: 03/26/2021 — This conference will explore how thinkers throughout history have considered emergencies and their political implications. We invite submissions from graduate researchers in intellectual history or related disciplines, drawing from different periods and places. Proposals for panels and papers may wish to consider the following themes: – Conceptual histories of emergency – States of emergency and states of exception – Historical narratives of emergency – The temporality of emergency – Environmental, climate, and health emergencies