Contributions are invited from anthropology, history, and the critical humanities that engage with the legacy of Eurasian and other toxicologies to reflect on the continuing polyvalence of poison…
The project would be to assist in research on solutions to the problem of nuclear waste disposal in Japan, and the associated proliferation risks posed by Japan’s reprocessing-only…
We invite proposals for papers examining material culture, technology, the business of food packaging and so on, both in the past and in the present.
While not always engaging with the concept of “technoscience,” scholars of critical, feminist, and crip disability studies often build on the foundational claim of disability studies that natural…
We consider how zones of exclusion, zero tolerance zones and other similar geospatial “exclusionary regimes” emphasize “the undeserving and the unreformable nature of deviants” (Becket and Weston 2001…
2017-18 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (JINELC) at Washington University in St. Louis invites application…
Visibility in the field can be fraught with methodological and ethical dilemmas. “Go ahead inside. I need to get a few things from the trunk,” I told Destiny…
Interactions between regulators and the private sector at the federal and state levels typically are collegial, and that both sides work to build and maintain cooperative partnerships.
We invite academics, practitioners and activists from a range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate the shifting roles of knowledge, culture and ecologies in historical, contemporary and…
SWANA – the Solid Waste Association of North America is now offering FREE membership to full-time college and university students.
Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK. Citizen science has…
The Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) is one of the largest sources of solid waste research funding in the U.S., allocating approximately $1 million annually in research…
CFP: ‘Treating Waste as a Resource’ RGS-IBG conference 29 Aug – 1 Sept, 2017 London, UK
What should we make of the ever more excessive production of remainders? What spaces of creativity and innovation struggle against, emerge from, or make visible this seemingly hidden…
New articles in discard studies, from December 2016 to January 2017.
We often use the words precision and accuracy interchangeably in everyday conversation, but in statistics they mean different things.
Between the age of seven and ten, I was obsessed with Barbie, and this playing spilled out far beyond my bedroom: it involved looking around the house, in…
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This conference will take place entirely online from 26 June-14 July, 2017. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will…
CFP: Environmental Justice 2017 – Looking Back, Looking Forward Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 November 2017 HOLME BUILDING | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Some of Trumps efforts are literally to support and intensify environmental pollution, and some are efforts to make certain people disposable. But people are fighting back. A lot…
7th European conference on African studies 29 June 2017-1st July 2017, University of Basel In African cities, the various uses of public spaces offer the opportunity for an…
The conference will address ‘technical lands’, sites where global knowledge practices and aesthetic categories have converged to literally transform the physical geography of the land. Harvard, April…
The purpose of this session is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for current historical research on toxic products during the two last centuries (1800-2000). 11th International Conference on…