CFP: session on "Limits of Nature" 2009 ASLE Conference

["Bruni, John P." <John.Bruni@sdsmt.edu>]

Session on "Limits of Nature"  ASLE Conference, Victoria, BC, June 3-6,
2009

Recently, there have been arguments on both sides of the Atlantic--in
works such as Timothy Morton's Ecology without Nature and Michael
Bonnett's Retrieving Nature: Education for a Post-Humanist Age--for
eliminating or downplaying the idea of a "natural environment" in
attempting to address ecological concerns.

What are the promises and perils of an "ecology without nature?"  To
what degree might it help us get beyond a humanism that impedes us from
recognizing the ethical issues central to our interaction with our
surroundings?

The session welcomes all critical, theoretical, and methodological
approaches to addressing these and related questions about the limits of
nature for ecological thinking.

Please send 250 word abstracts to john.bruni@sdsmt.edu by Nov. 1.

Thanks,

John Bruni
Assistant Professor of English
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology