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And meccsa! Begin forwarded message: > From: "Gavin, Neil" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 10 February 2017 15:56:27 GMT > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Opportunity for MECCSA/Climate Change Environment and Sustainability network people > Reply-To: "Gavin, Neil" <[log in to unmask]> > > Further details for the below are here: http://www.stir.ac.uk/cehp/projects/connectingwithalow-carbonscotland/ > > Call for Papers / Register for Conference: Connecting with a low-carbon future – the challenges for the arts and humanities > > This conference is being hosted by the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy on 19-20 April 2017 at the University of Stirling. Download details here: Connecting with a low-carbon future conference. > > The conference will discuss key issues in the transition to low-carbon societies. The dominant disciplines in the field so far have been the STEM subjects and social sciences such as economics and psychology. But there is growing recognition that moving successfully towards a low-carbon future requires fundamental social and cultural change. In this context, arts and humanities disciplines have distinctive and potentially powerful contributions to make. Working together, they can develop understanding of the key socio-cultural influences which affect peoples’ perceptions of the challenges involved in moving to a low-carbon future, and of how to connect with them more effectively. > > The conference therefore has panels for literature and theatre; law and politics; visual arts and media; and history and philosophy. The challenges to be discussed include, but are not limited to: > •identifying barriers to achieving low-carbon transitions, and how they can be addressed; > •achieving ethically just low-carbon transitions; and > •understanding and influencing political power. > > In addition, drawing on the work of the Royal Society of Edinburgh network and the conference panels, there will be the opportunity to contribute to the development of interdisciplinary narratives across the arts and humanities in a roundtable discussion. > > Keynote speakers > > We have three distinguished keynote speakers, who are experts in their own fields, interdisciplinary scholars, and members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh network: > > Professor Elizabeth Bomberg, Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Edinburgh; > > Professor Colin Reid, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Dundee; and > > Professor Janet Stewart, Professor in Visual Culture, University of Durham. > > Presenting a paper > > If you would like to present a paper, please send a short abstract of up to 250 words to [log in to unmask] by 24 March 2017. It is possible that conference presentations may be published in an edited monograph collection of essays of 6000 – 8000 words. If you are interested in this, please contact Professor Gavin Little at [log in to unmask] by 1 February 2017. > -------------------------------------------------------- > MeCCSA mailing list > -------------------------------------------------------- > To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 > ------------------------------------------------------- > MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. > > This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. 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This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------