Biennial Conferences

Tenth ASLE Biennial Conference: "Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits"

University of North Texas, Denton, TX
May 28 - June 1, 2013

Theme
The theme of our 10th Biennial Conference, "Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits," is intended to reflect some of the most exciting current conversations in the environmental humanities, and to link those discussions to the transnational nexus of energy, labor, borders, and human and nonhuman environments that the conference location exemplifies.  

The official Call for Proposals will be released on July 15, 2012, and will include more detailed information about the conference theme, goals, and plenary speakers; proposals will be due in mid-November. As has been true in past calls, fully constituted panels will be given preference over single paper proposals.

Conference Site
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a student-focused, public, research university. As one of Texas' largest universities, they offer 97 bachelor's, 88 master's and 40 doctoral degree programs within the university's 12 colleges and schools.

UNT has the advantages of both a metropolitan area with entertainment, culture, shopping and professional sports, and a college town offering a peaceful haven for study and research. The university is located in Denton, a town of about 100,000 people only 36 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth, the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.

UNT continues to build on its legacy of conservation and environmentalism.  UNT offers more than 50 courses with a sustainable focus, faculty are searching for ways to reduce society’s impact, and in its daily operations UNT treads lightly. The campus has a robust recycling program, fuels its vehicles with biodiesel, and is retrofitting buildings for greater energy efficiency while constructing new structures to meet the highest green building standards.

For more information on UNT, see http://www.unt.edu/index.htm.

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