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International Interdisciplinary
Conference: Nature and Culture
North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
June 13-15, 2012
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. We also plan a pending
on funding; contact us for more information.
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
Please send your abstract before April
16, 2012 (Russian or English, 2000
characters, MS Word)
to both e-mail addresses below:
Anastasia Kharabaeva, e-mail: skao1@yandex.ru
phone +7964 423-03-22
Werner Bigell, e-mail: werner.bigell@hifm.no
phone +47-90604507
на русском языке
21 ноября 2011
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