CFP: Ecologies of Toxicity
We welcome papers and performances (including artworks, films and media experiments) that map, trace, and critique ecologies of toxicity.
Author: Max Liboiron
CFP: Unnecessary, Unwanted and Uncalled-for: A Workshop on Uselessness
In this workshop we seek to interrogate the notion of uselessness in culture, politics and aesthetics both empirically and theoretically through four broad interconnected themes; the everyday, space,…
Modular electronic products and waste
Modularly upgradable product designs have been advocated to offer environmental and economic advantages; however, they are not commonly used in the consumer electronics industry.
CFP: Analytics for the Anthropocene: Socioecological futures and scale
We would like to bring political ecologists’ attention to (and questioning of) scale to the conversation on socioecological futures, and are interested in work sitting at the intersection…
Article Alert for Discard Studies! (August 2016)
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.
CFP: Racism’s Toxic Entanglements in the Age of Flint and Ferguson (AAG 2017)
This AAG session seeks papers that are interested in broadening the concept of environmental justice through an analytical focus on racism, embodiment, and environment or place.
CFP: Changing Secondhand Economies
This special issue aims to present the best of ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on historical and contemporary processes involved in the flow of secondhand objects and materials, their transforma…
Article Alerts in Discard Studies (June-July 2016)
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the…
Workshop: Opening the Bin – New perspectives on waste, culture and society from the humanities and the social sciences
The purpose of this two-day transdisciplinary workshop is to gather scholars from the social sciences and the humanities together with a few practitioners to critically discuss the places,…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
A Bibliography for Teaching Flint
This bibliography is designed for professors who want to “teach Flint” in their classrooms. The Flint, Michigan water crisis is an extreme but quintessential case study that shows…
Tomorrow! Free training call on “What You Need To Know About Contaminated Drinking Water: A Focus on Lead”
Learn about water testing, particularly for lead, including what people need to know about testing, what to look for, who should do the testing, and how testing should…
Workshop Circulaciones Icomodas (Mayo 19)
Perspectivas comparadas sobre la producción de jerarquías, fronteras y regulaciones sociales en torno al reciclado y reuso de materia descartada. Jueves 19 de Mayo 2016 SALA 10 –…
Drawing the Invisible: An interview with the illustrator for the Radiation Monitoring Project
Communicating invisible threats is an area of interest in discard studies because it requires distilling and articulating the ideas that matter most in our concepts of contamination and…
CFP: ASLE Graduate Symposium 2016: Toxic Borders and Bondages (May 25)
We invite you to join us for the first Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) graduate student symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann…
CFP: Towards an ecology of neglected things
Neglected things are pervasive in numerous contemporary practices and imaginaries. Our patchy knowledge about them is co-produced with a specific social order (Jasanoff, 2004), which is politically sh…
Article Alert! Table of Contents for new texts in Discard Studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
Thompson on Sills, ‘Toxic War: The Story of Agent Orange’
The use of the defoliant Agent Orange by the United States is one of the most controversial actions of the Vietnam War. InToxic War: The Story of Agent…
CFP: Timescales
Timescales explores the question of temporality in ecological crisis. Timescales is an interdisciplinary environmental humanities conference to be held on October 20-22, 2016 at the University of Pen…
Bibliography on Action-Based Research Methods
As researchers, we often want to make material and social changes through our work. Regardless of our institutional affiliations and disciplines, there are concrete ways to achieve this,…
Article Alert! New articles and books in Discard Studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have it’s own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books from all over …
CFP: Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, due by May 15, 2016. This volume will explore the intersection between transgender studies…
The Politics of Recycling vs. Reusing
Calling reuse “recycling” a common and seemingly simple mistake, yet it is extremely important to differentiate between the two for political and environmental reasons.
Toxic Symposium on Exposure, Entanglement, and Endurance: A Summary in Tweets
Toxics: A Symposium on Exposure, Entanglement, and Endurance was heralded as “the most important conversation on body burdens yet.” See the Twitter version of that conversation here.