We are pleased to announce the European conference of the Society for
Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) at the University of
Copenhagen from June 13 to 16 2018 with the topic of GREEN. The call
for participation has now been published, please distribute it widely
to potentially interested colleagues in your networks, and consider
submitting a paper or proposing a panel or stream yourself:
We expect around 250 delegates for this conference that is organised
conjunctly by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, the Faculty
of Health and Medical Sciences/Medical Museion and (OU)VERT, and wish
to make the event as fruitful as possible for UCPH’s departments.The
main conference site will be UCPH’s Southern Humanities campus, other
events and keynotes will take place at the Medical Museion, and at the
National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) and others.
The SLSAeu is the sister organisation of the international USA-based
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. It welcomes colleagues
in the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, all fields of
science, medicine, engineering, computer sciences as well as
independent scholars, artists and scientists, and explicitly promotes
inter- and trans-disciplinary exchange between literature, the arts,
the natural sciences, medicine and technology.
The SLSAeu Conference 2018 is centered on the theme of green,
providing a resolutely cross-disciplinary platform to explore one of
the most pervasive and broadest tropes of our times. Alongside this
central theme, the organizers also welcome provocatively un-green and
prismatic proposals from experts in all academic disciplines and
professional fields.
How to define and understand greenness is an urgent political,
societal, philosophical and economic question not only in academia –
yet there is much confusion about its meanings. Green is often
positively connoted. It has become pervasive across a broad range of
disciplines, but far from having universal meaning, it marks a
dramatic knowledge gap prone to systematic misunderstandings:
Engineers brand ‘green technologies’ as ecologically benign, but
climate researchers point to the ‘greening of the earth’ itself as the
alarming effect of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. ‘Green growth’ aims to
reconcile economic and ecologically sustainable development, while in
philosophy ‘prismatic ecology’ rebukes the use of green to represent
binary ideas of the other-than-human world as an idealized nature.
More concept than color, green is often being reduced to a mere
metaphor stripped of its material, epistemological and historical
referents.
The 4-5 keynote speakers will be announced in December.
Practical questions and stream or panel suggestions can be addressed to:
slsa-green@hum.ku.dk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/128056007877154/
Looking forward to your suggestions!
Kind regards,
Jens Hauser