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Subject: [SANET-MG] CFP: Is Local
Enough? Promises and Limits of Local Action
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:31:16
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From: Pavel Cenkl <pcenkl@STERLINGCOLLEGE.EDU>
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Is Local Enough?
Promises and Limits of Local Action
The Third Annual Rural Heritage Institute
at Sterling College
June 17-20, 2010
Sterling College
Craftsbury
Common, VT
Are there limits to local thinking? What is the relationship
between
rural and local? What is the role of local knowledge in an age
of
globalization? How are rural regions across the world implicated
in
global issues?
Panel, workshop, presentation, and roundtable
proposals are solicited
for Is Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local
Action from June
17th-20th at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont.
Part of
Sterling's annual Rural Heritage Institute, this event will
explore
the developing dialogue between local and global concerns as
it
applies to economy, agriculture, history, food, culture, and
rural
identity.
Located at the heart of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom,
Is Local Enough?
capitalizes on the model of community and experiential
learning at the
center of the Sterling College curriculum and apparent
throughout the
surrounding communities.
Each year, The Rural Heritage
Institute draws participants who are
passionate about solidifying the
connections among community, academic
scholarship, and meaningful action in
the field. The intimate
atmosphere of the Institute (between 50-75
participants) enables
productive conversations among a broad range of
practitioners,
scholars, community members, and under/graduate students who
share an
interest in exploring the intersections of local, regional, and
global
issues ? particularly as manifested in the rural Northeast.
Is
Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local Action will be filled
with four
days of workshops, field sessions, seminar panels,
roundtables,
presentations, featured speakers, and hands-on experiences.
You are
invited to submit proposals for this immersive and
interdisciplinary
Institute in areas including (but not limited
to):
Bioregionalism
Local Action
Sustainable
Agriculture
Glocalism
Farmstead and Folk Arts
Traditional
Foodways
The Rural Artisan
The Northern
Forest
Globalization
Regional Identity
Rural Literature
Mapping
Place
Oral History and Community Memory
Local and Regional
Economies
New Economy Agriculture
Radical Consumption
Slow
Food
Gender and Rural Identity
Agrarianism
Cottage Industries
The
Rhetoric of Place
Community-Based Food Systems
Rural Ethnic
Traditions
Sense of Place
Please send one-page proposals to Pavel Cenkl at
ruralheritage@sterlingcollege.edu
by February 26,
2010
Pavel Cenkl
Dean of Academics
Sterling College
16
Sterling Drive
Craftsbury Common, VT 05827
802-586-7711 ext.
140
www.sterlingcollege.edu
Rural Heritage Institute, June 17-20,
2010
ruralheritage@sterlingcollege.edu
ruralheritageinstitute.blogspot.com