CFP Ecotones #8, University of Ghent, 29 Sept-Oct 1, 2022 (original) (raw)

Utopia and Ecotone: Contemporary Stakes Ecotones #8 Ghent University, Belgium 29 September – 1 October 2022 In partnership with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), DIRE (Université de La Réunion) et Sciences Po Paris https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-européens-et- internationaux/ecotones Conference venue: Ghent University, Belgium Dates: 29 September – 1 October 2022 Languages: English, French Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2022 Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2022 After a series of conferences held at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Université de Poitiers and Université de La Réunion (France, 2015, 2016, 2018), at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences in Calcutta (CSSSC, India, 2018), Manhattanville College (USA, 2019), Concordia Universitý (Canada, 2019) and University of Cape Town (South Africa, 2021), this international conference at Ghent University will be the 8th opus of the “Ecotones : encounters, crossings, communities” (2015-2022) conference cycle. This interdisciplinary programme aims to open up the term “ecotone”, a concept hitherto used in geography and ecology, to the humanities, political and social sciences. The “Utopia and Ecotone” Conference will focus specifically on utopias that emerge from or relate to ecotones. See detailed cfp.