Biennial Conferences

Save the Date!

Ninth ASLE Biennial Conference

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

June 21-26, 2011

2009 Biennial Conference

ISLAND TIME: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World

June 3-6, 2009
Pre-Conference Workshops and Activities June 2, 2009

University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

 Conference Website:  http://asle.uvic.ca

Check out Simmons Buntin of Terrain.org blogging on the conference day by day (see menu in right hand column to find a particular day).

Andrew Revkin of the New York Times and a plenary speaker at the conference, was as amazed as the rest of us by the sheer volume of rabbits on the University of Victoria campus.  Read his post on this at his Dot Earth blog.

Call for Proposals (PDF)

ASLE’s eighth biennial conference in Victoria, British Columbia was a stunning success.  Host RIchard Pickard welcomed approximately 650 participants to the University of Victoria from Wednesday-Saturday, June 3-6, 2009, with pre-conference activities taking place on Tuesday, June 2.

The theme of the conference was “Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World,” which uses our temporal and spatial location on Vancouver Island as a metaphor for the past and future of place generally. In particular, ASLE’s first conference outside the U.S. was an especially fitting location to consider how the Internet and globalization now connect us all (linking our different identities, nations, and communities), as well as how the threat of climate change is affecting our interpretation of texts and cultures, not to mention the material world itself. 

To find out more about past biennial conferences, please consult our conference archive.