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<b><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Imaging Nature II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Tarraleah Lodge, Tasmania,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; ">21-23 June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Final Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">In June 2004, more than 70 people came together at Cradle Mountain for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/imaging/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Imaging
Nature</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>conference to examine representations and framing of nature in art, advertising, news media and tourism marketing. With snow falling outside
in the World Heritage Wilderness Area,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">academic researchers, industry practitioners and policy makers across a range of disciplines including fine arts,
park planning, media studies, literary studies and geography considered, among other issues, how natural environments and wilderness had become commodified in the service of the media, tourism and cultural industries. As ecologist Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick
said in his conference wrap-up, speakers repeatedly accused wilderness of being inaccurately portrayed as benign, ‘as equivalent to the hunting grounds of the aristocracy, as a wish-fulfilment fantasy’. ‘From my unimaginative perspective it seemed simply a
word that described land without human inhabitants of fixed abode and not much different in its appearance than before the European diaspora,’ he said. ‘Little did I suspect the palimpsest of suspect meanings a simple word concealed.’</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Eight years later, the Arts and Environment Research Group at the University of Tasmania will host Imaging Nature II, to be held at the Tarraleah Lodge, a former hydro electricity village on Tasmania’s
Central Plateau, from 21-23 June 2012. Like its predecessor, this interdisciplinary conference will seek to place nature within the context of cultural, political, technological and social change, and to explore emerging ‘images’ of environment, landscape
and place within what is now a rapidly expanding research field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">We welcome papers drawing on a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. In particular, we are interested in contributions that consider representations of contested/feral/hybrid landscapes
and environments, and/or explore the question: Is ‘wilderness’ dead?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Invited speakers include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">William L.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>Fox,
Director of the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Jamie Kirkpatrick, Professor
of Geography, University of Tasmania.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Michael Meadows, Professor
of Journalism,Griffith University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Linda Williams, Associate
Professor of Art, Environment and Cultural Studies, RMIT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Please forward abstracts of approx. 300 words and any further queries to Yvette Watt at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:Yvette.Watt@utas.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Yvette.Watt@utas.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by
31 March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Preliminary information at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/ejel/ImagingNature2/index.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">http://www.utas.edu.au/ejel/ImagingNature2/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">.
Further information and registration details available soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">*The Arts and Environment Research Group was formed in 2011 as an interdisciplinary initiative of the Faculty of Arts. Its leadership team is A/Prof David Stephenson, A/Prof Libby Lester, Dr Elizabeth Leane, Prof Noel
Frankham and Prof Marie Sierra.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div>Dr John Gunders</div>
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<div>Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies</div>
<div>The University of Queensland</div>
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