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<p class="MsoNormal">Please feel free to share and re-post!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Feral: A nearly carbon-neutral conference<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>November 2018<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Co-hosted by Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) and Wageningen University Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the twenty-first century, globalisation has become a truism, rather than a challenge or opportunity. People, money, resources, culture and power all flow around the world in ever increasingly complex systems and assemblages. Yet even
as apparently almost all aspects of life become subject to global circulation, our ways of thinking about natural or non-human worlds remain stubbornly resistant to concepts of hybridity and exchange. Nature is so often imagined to have a proper place, arrangement
or constitution: certain species are desirable and must be saved, whereas the flourishing of others (from algae to jellyfish to rats) can be taken as a sign of imbalance or degradation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In order to re-examine how we conceive and value different forms of nature or the non-human, this event calls on participants to take up the feral as a way to explore the possibilities and problems of the human relation to the non-human
world. The idea of the feral gestures towards forms of non-human life that have spurned human control or expectations: ‘bad’ forms of wilderness that are out of place and upset conventional thinking about the desirable or proper arrangement of nature. From
biosecurity to so-called invasive species, ‘dead zones’ to re-wilding, urban pests to the idea of the feral calls on us to interrogate our assumptions about how, what, where and why nature ought to be, how we draw those lines and distinctions and how they
speak to wider structures of power, political economy and privilege. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We welcome contributors who hail from a broad range of disciplines: ecologists, artists, anthropologists, environmental psychologists, designers, sociologists, zoologists, geographers, environmental managers, development practitioners,
biologists, economists, media and communications experts, educators, and environmental activists to name a few.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, the following themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Some animals are more equal than others: assessing the value of non-human life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Nature on the move: biological flows around the globe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Nature out of place: where do species belong?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Nature out of balance: resilience, equilibrium and ecology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Political economies of the feral: value, (non)commodification, markets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Everyday and urban ecologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Growing in the cracks: non-human agency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Experimenting with the non-human world: introduced species, rewilding and novel ecosystems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Trash animals: vermin, pests and weeds
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Feral humanity: bridging human and non-human worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Feral education: the nonhuman world in the classroom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US">Nearly carbon-neutral conference format<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Traditional academic conferences are responsible for a considerable amount of carbon emissions, as presenters fly from around the world to present in a single location. This also incurs significant
financial costs, which often precludes researchers from developing countries and postgraduate students from attending. The Environmental Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Barbara estimated that running an online conference reduces the carbon footprint of a
conference by 99%. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">This conference will take place entirely online in November 2017. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will consist of material
that can be submitted online as a video file. This could take the form of a webcam recording, an edited video, a PowerPoint or Prezi with recorded audio or another form of video. Each presentation should be no more than 20 minutes long. Instructions on creating
and submitting presentations for the conference are online </span><a href="http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/submitting-a-video-file/"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. For a sense of what this looks like in practice, please see last year’s
conference on “</span><a href="http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-plastic/"><span lang="EN-US">The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US">Abstract deadline and details<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a 250 word abstract with your name, e-mail address, and affiliation to PERC@massey.ac.nz by 30 June, 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">After the conference, some contributors will be invited to develop their presentations for publication in an edited volume. Preference for publication in the edited volume will be given to
papers presenting research collaborations between arts/social science researchers and natural scientists. We hope some of these research collaborations will emerge out of the conference.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US">Conference Organisers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Massey University: Nicholas Holm, Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, Lisa Vonk, Tony Carusi, Corrina Tucker, Karen Hytten<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Wageningen University: <span style="color:black">
Bram Buscher, Rob Fletcher, Jessica de Koning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">-----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=990001"><span style="color:blue">Dr Nicholas Holm</span></a> |Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Program
Coordinator for Media Studies</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Building 7, Room 7C45 |Massey University |Wellington |Aotearoa New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">DDI 04 979 3544 |ext. 63544 |
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><a href="mailto:N.H.F.Holm@massey.ac.nz"><span style="color:windowtext">N.H.F.Holm@massey.ac.nz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><a href="https://massey.academia.edu/NicholasHolm"><span style="color:blue">https://massey.academia.edu/NicholasHolm</span></a></span><u><span style="color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">New Publications<br>
<a href="https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319509495"><span style="color:blue">Humour as Politics</span></a> //
<a href="https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/advertising-and-consumer-society-nicholas-holm/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137471741">
<span style="color:blue">Advertising and Consumer Society: A Critical Introduction</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"> //
<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthropocene">
<span style="color:blue">Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene</span></a></span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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