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From: Sabine Brauckmann [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: CFP "Plants and Environment - Spaces of Transformation", Tallinn (Estonia), Oct 22-23, 2010
First Announcement
"PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENT - SPACES OF TRANSFORMATION"
Network of Science and Literature Studies
Tallinn, Oct 22-23, 2010
http://www.teadusjakirjandus.utlib.ee/index2.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Mini-Conference
PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENT - SPACES OF TRANSFORMATION
Conference language: English
Deadline: June 15, 2010
Description
The conference will focus on plants and their intricate alliance with the
environment they inhabit, whether as specimen of the life sciences, feeding
crops, products of luxury spoiling our palate, or delighting our senses by
their aesthetic beauty, to mention just a few of the variate procurements
of plants on earth.
In sketching how plant-spaces shaped Nature and Culture from the 17th
century to nowadays, we want to discuss how our usage of plants has
influenced and still influences transformations of natural and man-made
habitats (whether rural landscapes or garden cities, fields or
laboratories, factories or kitchens).
In open discussions and short papers (ca. 15 min) we want to exchange ideas
about the regnum plantarum in all its diversity.
Our main objective is to initiate a collaboration of scholars, scientists
and artists reflecting on and experimenting with plant-spaces, either set
up by or related to a natural object, a text, an image, or a technical device.
To offer a most flexible framework the conference is structured around 6
themes:
- plants in the museum and laboratory (natural history, botany, molecular
plant biology, fine arts)
- plants in texts and images (nature writing, art history, scientific
articles and illustrations)
- plants and biodiversity (plant-geography, functional ecology, green movement)
- plants and people (food, economic botany, gardening, landscape
architecture, urban planning)
- medical plants (ethnobotany)
- plants' cloning and/or cloning plants (breeding, agriculture, transgenic
plant science)
Key Speakers
Professor Dr. Mart Kalm, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Professor Dr. Urmas Kõljalg, University of Tartu and Natural History
Museum, Estonia
Professor Dr. Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Centre, University of Munich,
Germany
Professor Dr. Verena Winiwarter, University of Klagenfurt and University of
Vienna, Austria
Call for Abstracts
We welcome contributions from a variety of scholars and scientists, not
only specialists in environmental issues of plants, but also from such
diverse fields like human geography, anthropology, art history,
climatology, economy, landscape architecture, pharmacology, and economy.
To engage in lively debates, we request for short papers that elucidate and
advance the issues and thematic concerns of the transdisciplinary topic of
plants in an environmental context.
Although there is no limitation to any geographical region we are
especially interested in papers dealing with the Baltic countries and the
Russian Empire.
To propose a paper, please send an abstract (not more than 500 words)
including title and full contact details to
Sabine Brauckmann, [log in to unmask]
Ulrike Plath, [log in to unmask]
The deadline for abstract submittal is June 15, 2010.
We will inform about the accepted abstracts until July 1, 2010.
Selected and reviewed papers will be published in a special volume of the
Estonian Journal of Ecology in 2011.
General information about the conference can be found at:
http://www.teadusjakirjandus.utlib.ee/events.html
Sabine Brauckmann
Science Center
Tartu University Library
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Ulrike Plath
Under and Tuglas Literature Centre
Estonian Academy of Sciences
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