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AAG Meetings, 27 February to 3 March 2001, New York AAG registration form is at http://www.aag.org/PDF/2001call.pdf Call for session papers: Cultural and Political Ecology in an Urban and Industrial World. Cultural and Political Ecology, with its focus on the social regulation of nutrient and energy flows, the economic structures of land management decision-making, and the power-laden patterns of resource access and transformation, is uniquely positioned to examine urban environments and developed contexts. Here, land managers, corporate firms, households, and individuals all struggle and cooperate to adapt the landscape and transform the ecological systems on which they depend. The papers in this session bring the approaches of cultural and political ecology to developed, industrial, and urban contexts to address the pressing and puzzling questions of these diverse environments. Offers of papers to Paul Robbins [log in to unmask] Deadline: 28 August 2000. Call for session papers: Soils in Archaeological and Cultural Context. Many geoscientists, archaeologists, cultural ecologists, and others are working on interdisciplinary problems of soils in archaeological and cultural ecological contexts. This special session invites papers from anyone in these disciplines with recent and ongoing field work to take part. Topics can range from interdisciplinary studies of indigenous soil fertility, techniques of indigenous, intensive agriculture, soil conservation, soil enhancement, soils geomorphology and archaeological evidence, soil sustainability, soil landscape remediation, and ethnopedology. Most papers thus far are about soils and archaeology in the Neotropics, but we encourage a wider variety of papers on topics from around the world. If you wish to register for this session, please contact Tim Beach (out of the USA between June 20 & 20 July 2000) Program in Science & Technology, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, Washington, D.C. 22307 [log in to unmask] Organizers Tim Beach and Nicholas Dunning (University of Cincinnati). Deadline: 28 August 2000. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%