[URBANTH-L] CFP: Changing Climates: Class, Culture, and Politics in an Era of Global Warming (Berkeley City College)

[Angela Jancius]

From: Peter Richardson (peter.richardson at sbcglobal.net)

CHANGING CLIMATES:
CLASS, CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL WARMING

California Studies Association, Berkeley City College, April 11-13, 2008

California faces economic and social transformations even as it grapples
with policy questions forced by climate change. These challenges confront a
state fractured along lines of class, race, and immigration status, and with
little support for public services. How can we overcome political deadlock
and respond to these challenges without deepening the fractures? What new
opportunities for community, creativity, and democracy do these very crises
offer? Join the California Studies Association for its 18th annual
conference to address these and related questions.

We are soliciting panels of up to four speakers committed to raising
important questions and engaging with a lively audience. Moderators are
encouraged. Individual presentations may be accepted if they can be fit
together into a panel. Non-traditional forms of discourse and presentation
are welcome.

Berkeley City College is located in downtown Berkeley at 2050 Acton Street,
accessible by BART and AC Transit.  Lodging is available nearby.  Other CSA
information, including descriptions of past conferences, is available at
http://geography.berkeley.edu/projectsresources/californiastudies.html

Please send proposals (preferably by email) by December 15, 2007, to:

Peter Richardson
Dept. of Humanities
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA  94132
peter.richardson at sbcglobal.net