The Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers is currently accepting submissions for the 2018 Sexuality and Space Student Paper Competition. Winners will be notified prior to the 2018 Annual Meeting of the AAG in New Orleans. First-place winners receive a prize of $155 to cover early-bird conference registration costs, as well as a ticket for the Annual AAG Awards Luncheon, and second-place winners receive a prize of $75. The submission deadline is Monday, January 15, 2018. Potential topics may include: Queer and trans political resistance Community and political formations of queer and trans people of color in …
CFP Political Ecologies of Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Events due 11/27.
CFP Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference 2018 Session title: Political Ecologies of Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Events Organizers: Katinka Wijsman (New School for Social Research), Melissa Davidson (Arizona State University) and Erin Friedman (City University of New York). Motivated by the actual and anticipated occurrence of weather related extreme events, a plethora of actors in urban areas are organizing and participating in planning and design efforts–as well as concrete action–aimed at increasing urban resilience and adapting to climatic change. These efforts focus on post-disaster recovery as well as on minimizing economic losses, deaths, and other negative impacts of future …
11/30 Colloquium: Panel and Book Launch! Rethinking Neoliberalism
Make our Planet Great Again: 2018-2019 STEM or HSS Chateaubriand Fellowship
The Make Our Planet Great Again Initiative was launched by the President of France Emmanuel Macron in June 2017 to reinforce the international engagements of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The French government then opened a call to non-resident researchers who would like to develop top-level research projects in France, together with French partners, to address climate change. In support of the Make Our Planet Great Again Initiative, the Embassy of France in Washington, DC is offering additional Chateaubriand Fellowships for research projects related to: Earth System Science – Knowledge and monitoring of the physical, chemical, biological, ecological and social mechanisms …
Short-term School Equity Fellows Needed for @eskoltaschools in NYC!
Are you interested in transforming education? Do you believe great teachers can make a difference not only in the lives of children with unanswered potential, but in the formation of our education system and its future? Eskolta School Research and Design, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City that helps educators reinvent schools to promote meaningful learning. Eskolta was launched in 2010 by a team with extensive background in public school reform. Its focus on turning around the dropout rate addresses one of the most critical problems facing public education today, and one that is gaining increased …
#ESSPublishes: EO Prof Cindi Katz On Rocking “the Project”: The Beat Goes On in honor of Susan Christopherson
Professor Cindi Katz published an article in a special symposium issue of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography called On Being Outside “the Project”: A Symposium in honor of Susan Christopherson. The article is entitled On Rocking “the Project”: The Beat Goes On. Check it out. The radical geography community lost one of its leading lights last year when Susan Christopherson, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Department Chair at Cornell, passed away. In 1989, Susan wrote a short, germinal essay in the pages of this journal that challenged the persistence of marginalizing and minimizing social difference in radical geography. …
June 2018 Critical PAR Institute Application due 1/8.
Annual Spring Critical PAR Institute Now in it’s 8th season, the Critical Participatory Action Research Institute is designed to introduce the theory, methods, and ethics of critical participatory action research (PAR) to graduate students, faculty, and members of community based organizations. Through seminars, roundtables, and hands-on workshops with experienced researchers, participants gain the necessary skills and knowledge to integrate a critical PAR approach into their scholarship, research, and/or organizing. For more information about the Public Science Project click here. What will I learn? The history, theory, method, and ethics of Critical PAR Building partnerships with community & community –based organizations …
CfP: Thinking and Organizing at the Margins of Traditional Housing. Travel assistance available!
CfP due 12/1. Conference 3/1-3/3 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA The margins of traditional housing, those precarious or makeshift spaces against which dominant models of property ownership and exclusion are constructed, have long been a powerful site from which to theorize, organize, and resist. Homelessness, eviction, squatters’ rights, and the right to land all find their way into fruitful interdisciplinary scholarship, much of which links these struggles to broader questions of citizenship, governance, and exclusion. Meanwhile many of the same root problems motivate housing activists around the globe. These community organizing struggles create a more grounded, pragmatic critiques …
Outstanding Dissertation in Cartography, Geodesy and/or GIS
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Tenure Track Urban Ecology Position in Utah
The Department of Zoology at Weber State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Urban Ecology starting Fall, 2018. Ecologists whose work focuses at any level -from organisms through ecosystems- and with expertise in either aquatic or terrestrial systems are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will be appointed at the Assistant Professor level and will be expected to 1) teach upper and lower division lecture and laboratory courses in his/her area(s) of expertise (e.g. Ecology and Introductory Zoology), 2) establish an active and sustained research program that includes mentoring undergraduate students; 3) seek external funding in support of …
