[Scpg] Is Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local Action

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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  -0500
From: Pavel Cenkl <pcenkl at STERLINGCOLLEGE.EDU>
To:  SANET-MG at LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

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 at 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 at sterlingcollege.edu
ruralheritageinstitute.blogspot.com



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