[ECN] CFP: Going Green from the Black Perspective

"Going Green from the Black Perspective: The Significance of Environmental Issues in the Black Community" is a one-day conference to be held Feb. 25 at Stony Brook University devoted to exploring the various ways Black activists, scholars, agriculturalists, and politicians have been (and are) currently responding to environmental issues within communities of color. At this time we are accepting papers that examine a variety of issues linked to environmentalism such as 1. the impact of toxic dump sites in urban communities, 2. the black community's involvement with green initiatives from the grassroots level to the international stage, 3. the relationship between environmentalism and activism within the black community, or 4. educating children of color about the vulnerability of the planet. Other topics will be taken into consideration. Please send your 300 word abstracts along with a cv by Dec 15, 2009 to: Dr. Tracey Walters Stony Brook University Dept of Africana Studies SBS 257 Stony Brook, NY 11794 Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Communication & Culture Indiana University Classroom Office Building; 800 East 3rd St. Bloomington, IN 47405-9700 USA Phone: (812) 855-2106; Fax: (812) 855-6014 See my website: http://www.indiana.edu/~envtrhet At my website, you can find out more about my two books: Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice (2007, University of Alabama Press) & Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (2007, MIT Press) As well as the new journal: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture ECN - Mailing list of the Environmental Communication Network: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/ To subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change your settings for ECN go to: http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ecn&A=1 Indications: Environmental Communication and Culture blog: http://indications.wordpress.com/

"Going Green from the Black Perspective: The Significance of Environmental Issues in the Black Community" is a one-day conference to be held Feb. 25 at Stony Brook University devoted to exploring the various ways Black activists, scholars, agriculturalists, and politicians have been (and are) currently responding to environmental issues within communities of color. At this time we are accepting papers that examine a variety of issues linked to environmentalism such as 1. the impact of toxic dump sites in urban communities, 2. the black community's involvement with green initiatives from the grassroots level to the international stage, 3. the relationship between environmentalism and activism within the black community, or 4. educating children of color about the vulnerability of the planet. Other topics will be taken into consideration.

Please send your 300 word abstracts along with a cv by Dec 15, 2009 to:

Dr. Tracey Walters

Stony Brook University

Dept of Africana Studies

SBS 257

Stony Brook, NY 11794

Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Communication & Culture

Indiana University

Classroom Office Building; 800 East 3rd St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-9700 USA

Phone: (812) 855-2106; Fax: (812) 855-6014

See my website: http://www.indiana.edu/~envtrhet

At my website, you can find out more about my two books:

Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice (2007, University of Alabama Press) &

Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (2007, MIT Press)

As well as the new journal:

Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture

ECN - Mailing list of the Environmental Communication Network:
http://www.esf.edu/ecn/
To subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change your settings for ECN go to:
http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ecn&A=1
Indications: Environmental Communication and Culture blog:
http://indications.wordpress.com/