CFP: [American] Environment and Environmentalism in the Americas
We are soliciting papers for the 2nd edition of the Mercyhurst Colloquium
on the Americas to be held March 7 and 8, 2008. The theme for this year
is “Environmentalities.†Papers may come from any discipline on any
topic discussing the peoples of the Americas and how they perceive/
relate to/ interact with the natural world. Possible topics include (but
are by no means limited to) environmental activism and indigenous
movements, literature/cinema and the environment, environment/ecology/
nature in politics, globalization and environmental justice, legacies of
Manifest Destiny, place and identity/ regionalism, eco-critical
approaches to literature/cinema/culture, environmental/ecological