Annual Conference

Call for Papers: INCS 2020 “The Green Conference” | March 5-8 | Los Angeles, CA

Click here for conference siteSUSTAINABILITY, INDUSTRIALIZATION, & ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE

What is the intersection between industrialization, the Anthropocene, and the birth of environmental science? How does the past inform our understanding of the green world, the greenback, and the browning of our sky?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Pablo Mukherjee (University of Warwick), author of Postcolonial Environments and Natural Disasters and Victorian Imperial Culture, and Hugo and Nebula Award Winner Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Three Californias, The Mars Trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Red Moon

Possible Topics

  • The Anthropocene and environmental degradation
  • Indigenous climate change studies
  • Green writing
  • Urban sustainability and reclamation
  • Environmental Arts
  • Colorism and racial logics
  • Greening blue/oceanic studies
  • The energy humanities
  • Green architecture
  • The color of money
  • Empire and climate change
  • Plant culture & botanizing
  • Fantasy and the environment
  • Sustainability and rewilding
  • Ableism and ecocriticism
  • Environmentalism of the poor
  • Utopianism
  • Accelerationism
  • New agencies & transpecies activism
  • Industrial ecology
  • Immaturity
  • Green spaces and the commons
  • Greenwashing
  • Sickness and ecologies of health

Digital Panel Information
To promote sustainability, one panel stream will be virtual, with panels that join virtually from remote locations. Panels will link via teleconference to a room at the conference venue, and present papers and take questions via a two-way video feed. Virtual panels, as well as the keynote addresses, will also be broadcast online, including live chat support so that the panelists can take questions from their online audience. In proposing a virtual panel, the panelists agree to meet together at a single remote site during their panel session, and to provide a computer with video and audio support. INCS and USC will provide remote support, including browser-based teleconference software

For more information, or to submit a paper, panel, or virtual panel proposal by 15 September 2019, click here to visit the conference web site, or contact: incs2020@gmail.com

Future Conferences

  • 2021 | Salt Lake City, UT