Sustainability Studies Opportunities

Call for Submissions for Special Issue:
TEACHING THE EARTH

Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

Deadline: November 30, 2009
Guest Editor: Anthony Lioi
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 – 10,000 words) and media reviews (books,
film, video, performance, art, music, etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore environmental
issues in all pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspective. Essays should raise questions concerning constructive pedagogical responses to local and planetary environmental issues.
· Ecological literacy
· Environmental ethics
· Natural, cultural, and financial economies
· Resource depletion
· Mass extinction
· Popular culture and the environment
· Religion and ecology
· Corporate greenwashing
· Celebrity environmentalism
· The Earth and the Internet
· Resource wars
· Indigenous nations and environmental sovereignty
· The queer Earth
· Nature writing
· Green cities
· Food and farming
· Radical environmentalisms
· Ecology in the Borderlands
· Environmental racism
· The Anti-Toxics and Environmental Justice movements
· Rural, suburban, and urban geography
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed
interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice. The journal features a range of approaches ­ from theoretical articles to creative and experimental accounts of pedagogical innovations from teachers and scholars from all areas of education.

Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format (6th ed.) as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text
format to: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, mailto:transformations@njcu.edu transformations@njcu.edu. OR send a hard copy to Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305.
Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page. For submission
guidelines go to: www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.

Mark Your Calendar

UW System Sustainability Meeting
Central Wisconsin Environmental Station
Sunset Lodge, Amherst Junction, WI 54407
November 18-19, 2009
The agenda isn't finalized yet, but you can plan on arriving around noon on Wednesday and departing about 1:00 p.m. on Thursday. The Central WI Environmental Station is located 15 miles east of Stevens Point. A block of hotel rooms will be booked in Stevens Point, but the more adventurous in the group can spend the night at the camp. The planning committee is getting started on the agenda, which will be sent out along with registration information within a few weeks. There will be a faculty/curriculum thread. If you are interested in learning more or sharing how you are bringing Sustainability issues into your teaching, contact Helen Klebesadel: hklebesadel@uwsa.edu.
Central WI Environmental Center: http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/cwes/index.aspx

Announce a Special Symposium
Climate Change and Green Jobs: Helping Businesses Prepare for New Expectations and New Rules
Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Law School, The Business, Environment, and Social Responsibility Program at the Wisconsin School of Business, and the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council together with Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.
Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Edgewater Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin
http://www.law.wisc.edu/clew/seminars/climate_change.html

Resources
The UW-Madison Nelson Institute
The Nelson Institute and its programs conduct a host of community programs that promote a more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable world. Find out more information here: http://www.ies.wisc.edu/community/programs.html

Film Festival
Tales from Planet Earth
Nov. 6-8, 2009
Madison, WI
This free festival in downtown Madison will showcase more than 30 environmental films from around the world and feature lectures and discussions by Majora Carter and Winona LaDuke, several award-winning film makers, and scholars. The inaugural festival, in 2007, attracted more than 3,000 filmgoers.
http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/tales/

Web Resources
Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
Visit the maps of scientists' recent findings of climate trends and projections in Wisconsin, released on September 14, 2009.
http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/

Call for Submissions
Journal of American Culture
The Greening -- or not -- of America
The deadline for submission is Dec. 31 2010 and the issue will be published in March 2012.
At the focus of this special issue is the global environmental crisis now sometimes being faced and undeniably also sometimes being denied. What are its implications for the culture of the United States of America , because of its position as the worldís dominant military superpower and consumer of resources, occupies a critical role in the environmental crisis. In this special issue the editors seek contributions from a range of interdisciplinary environmental thinkers, dreamers and practitioners. Essays can address an environmental practitioner or thinker, an idea, issue, philosophy or form of activism, historical or current. They can examine explicitly environmental texts, provide new readings of texts not generally understood as ìgreen,î and/or also take the form of a 'manifesto.' They can explore ìgreenî understandings of such basics as birth, food, community, sex, health, sickness, spirituality, and death. They particularly welcome essays based in ecological feminist and transnational perspectives and in awareness of the intersections of environmental devastations with all forms of social injustice. Submissions, generally 15-25 pages in length, are to be original scholarly manuscripts formatted according to MLA style guidelines using in-text citations with author's name and page number. Endnotes and works cited should appear at the end of the paper. In light of space limitations, please avoid excessive use of endnotes. This issue will be edited by Jane Caputi ( jcaputi@fau.edu ) and Suzanne Kelly ( suzmkelly@aol.com ). Direct inquiries to either editor. Send completed manuscripts to The Journal of American Culture at jac@vwc.edu or The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College , 1584 Wesleyan Drive , Norfolk , VA 23502 .