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<h4 align="center" style="text-align:center">CFP: Unnatural Futures Conference<o:p></o:p></h4>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Dates: 3 & 4 July, 2014<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center">Venue: University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hunter St (Centre for the Arts Building).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>From genetically modified foods to zombie apocalypse, concerns about the future are increasingly reflected in contemporary media, policy and culture. An "unnatural future" is being shaped by rapidly escalating anxieties about the social, cultural, environmental
and technological risks that now pervade everyday life. This climate of fear and uncertainty about the future requires careful consideration around how best to respond and intervene in debates, discussion and media representations around our "unnatural future".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This conference brings together researchers from a range of academic disciplines, including those from the social sciences, humanities, and agricultural and environmental studies, to address the following questions: how do we imagine the future? What are
the methodologies or theories that may help navigate these potential futures? The intention is to share and explore views of the possible natural and unnatural futures that loom large on the horizon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We welcome papers that focus on (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></p>
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Environmental disaster and crime<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Apocalypse, utopia and dystopia<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Food security, climate change, genetic technologies<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Science fiction and horror<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Artificial or virtual bodies and spaces<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Technology and human development, the posthuman and nonhuman<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Industry and corporate interventions in social and environmental problems<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Activism, resistance, protest<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Experiencing the anthropocene<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Speculative fiction, science, research and theory<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Inhabiting or representing unnatural futures<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p>Keynote speakers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Professor <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/staff-list/all/nigel-clark/">
Nigel Clark</a> (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Professor <a href="http://socialsciences.uow.edu.au/ausccer/UOW002993.html">Lesley Head</a> (The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research; University of Wollongong)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Deadline:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Applications and abstracts: 31 January 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Submission of abstracts or panel proposals: E-mail the <a href="mailto:rebecca.dorgelo@utas.edu.au">
conference contact</a> with the following information:<o:p></o:p></p>
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A 250-word abstract in MS Word (doc or docx) format<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Your full name as you would like it to appear in the conference booklet<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Contact information (email)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
A short biography including academic affiliation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
Audiovisual requirements <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p>Organisers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="mailto:Craig.Norris@utas.edu.au">Craig Norris</a> - Journalism, Media & Communications, University of Tasmania;<br>
<a href="mailto:Michelle.Phillipov@utas.edu.au">Michelle Phillipov</a> - Journalism, Media & Communications, University of Tasmania;<br>
<a href="mailto:Felicity.Picken@utas.edu.au">Felicity Picken</a> - AHURI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania;<br>
<a href="mailto:Yvette.Watt@utas.edu.au">Yvette Watt</a> - Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania.<br>
Supported by the <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/centres/arts-and-environment-research-group">
Arts Environment Research Group</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Conference contact: <span class="apple-style-span"><a href="mailto:rebecca.dorgelo@utas.edu.au">rebecca.dorgelo@utas.edu.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">Felicity Picken</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif""> PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">University of Tasmania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">Felicity.Picken@utas.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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