So too, queer ecology has taken on a life of its own beyond the academy, from the art collective Institute of Queer Ecology, to social media accounts that foreground intersections between trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, Indigenous, Black, Asian, Latinx, and/or disability studies. Nelson, Kim TallBear) the under-examined racial, sexual dimensions of posthumanism (Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) the queer, more-than-human relationships that inspire Black diasporic forms of sociality (Andil Gosine, Joshua Bennett) the vegetal turn in critical theory (Michael Marder, Joela Jacobs, Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari) and trans river ecologies (Cleo Wölfle Hazard), to name just a few. While the term queer ecologies first appeared over two decades ago, in the work of scholars such as Greta Gaard and Catriona Sandilands, this special issue takes its point of departure from the new directions that have appeared in the field: historical analyses of the environmental logics of race and sexuality “before” the subject (Greta LaFleur) Indigenous eco-erotics that expand erotic relations beyond sexual acts and across species lines (Melissa K. Taking the spatial dimensions at stake in the queer and the environmental seriously, this special issue asks: How might the notion of the queer environ trouble ideas of gender and sexuality as originating inside an individual’s subjectivity, rather than in the space beyond one’s skin? What would it mean to consider sex environmentally, as a spatial style of being, rather than determined by what’s under one’s clothes? What are the possibilities-and limitations-of analogizing human transness, nonbinariness and genderfluidity to examples drawn from the environment? And how might we challenge the notion, contained in the etymology of the word environ, of a colonizing subject settled at the center of its surroundings? So too, “queer,” as noun and verb, derives its original meaning from space, referring to something that is oblique, slanted, or off-center. Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymourīoth noun and verb, “environ” points to what’s “out there,” one’s milieu or surrounding world, the assemblage of human and more-than-human beings in which one finds oneself situated, as well as the activity of encircling an area to enclose, circumnavigate, or occupy it. Drop the program committee a line at of the selection process, tracks and topics are described in our call for papers application at. Quality content first! If you think there’s anything wrong with that, or have suggestions for improvement, we would love to hear from you. This way we try to eliminate all kinds of conflicts of interests. Is it an honest system? Yes, we like to think so. That’s why we like to share this information with you here and manage expectations up front. Sometimes we get angry e-mails or funky phone calls in return. This means we have to disappoint people as well. Mostly, over four times the amount of session slots available. If conflicts arise the NLJUG board members make the final call, but most of the time we’ll manage to come to an agreement before that happens.įortunately for us, we do receive lots of proposals. Remarkably, most of the time this produces very uniform results. – Whatever other criteria they may find of interest (that’s why they stand out, right?)įinally, the committee sits together and adds up the individual ratings.

– Evaluation results for speaker from previous conferences/universities, if any.– Speaker credentials (pay attention to your speaker bio, especially previous speaking engagements!).– Variety in topics over conferences in the past.– Diversity in topics for this particular conference.Program committee members individually judge the session abstracts paying attention to the following criteria in no particular order: The committee consists of members from the NLJUG board and is complemented by 8 individuals that stand out in the NLJUG and open source communities. When the call for papers deadline has passed, the program committee are handed the session abstracts and they have to individually rate the sessions using a “five star system” (1: bad - 5: excellent). You can submit a proposal for J-Fall 2022 using our Sessionize call for papers application at.

For most of our events, the majority of the program is compiled based on proposals submitted through a call for papers.

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