ACTIVE Call For Proposals - below you will find information on in-person, hybrid and virtual sessions, as well as a lighting talk and creative presentations that have been organized for the conference. Please consider submitting to these sessions. 

Below are the links to all current Active CFPs for DOPE 2024+

Abstract submission deadline for each of these sessions is 22nd December 2023 unless otherwise stated by session organizers.

IN-PERSON SESSIONS

HYBRID SESSIONS

VIRTUAL SESSIONS

OTHER SESSIONS

Lightning Talk

Reflections on Extraction

This Lightning Talk Symposium invites theoretical, methodological, and empirical reflection on extraction. We take as our point of departure Cedric Robinson’s theorization of extraction as the core relation of racial capitalism (1983), which has inspired geographers’ thinking around the transformation of time, natural resources, knowledge, labor, and space into value. In consideration of this year’s conference theme, “creating from crisis,” this session aims both to explore how political ecologists take up extraction as an object of study, and how our work might open up pathways for unmaking worlds formed in extractive violence. We welcome presentations that reflect on the conceptual work that extraction does for political ecologists, that critically examine the entanglement of our (inter)disciplines with extractive knowledge production, or that explore the material possibilities for unmaking extractive relations.

For this session, we invite 10-12 participants to give an informal “lightning talk” of no more than 5 minutes, accompanied by two slides (one title slide and one content slide), to be submitted in advance of the session. Our aim is to create an experimental and dynamic environment for discussion in which we open possibilities for trying out new ways of thinking with and against extraction. As such, we encourage scholars, activists, and artists to present work at any stage of development and in any medium that supports creative and critical engagement with extraction. We encourage presentations that question, challenge, and provoke as well as those that outline or scaffold an argument. 

Organizers: Sophie Moore & Jed DeBruin 

To participate, please submit an abstract of no more than 150 words to Sophie Moore smoore2@lsu.edu or Jed DeBruin jed@uky.edu by 22 December 2023. 

Modality: In-person

Creative Presentations

Call for Creatives 
"I wanted to tell a story capable of engaging and countering the violence of abstraction. For me, that had to be embodied in physical story, and I was the one who had to hazard the journey."

- Saidiya Hartman

Academic research tends to be inaccessible. Whether articles are hidden behind journal paywalls, or the technical jargon used is unfamiliar to most, our forms of communicating research can preclude the uptake of new ideas in society at large. In this session, we invite people to explore their creativity and share their research, ideas, theorizations, and more through different modes of dissemination. The scope of this call is broad, as are the possibilities for presenting. We encourage folks to think about communicating their work to the wider public. You may ask yourself: What mediums do I engage, or would I like to engage with, to bring my project(s) to life?
Possible presentations include, but are not limited to:
-Narrative Storytelling
-Visual Art Pieces
-Poetry
-DJ set
-Video productions
-Dance & Performance
-Experimental & participatory engagement
As some of these could be pre-created or pre-recorded, we will make sure we have the capacity to play or display your work as appropriate. We encourage presenters to focus on the conference's themes of Creating from Crisis and show how their approach provides "community-facing opportunities for knowledge exchange and more-than-human connection, grounded in the possibilities held by political ecology."

The session will host creative presentations of a variety of formats.

Organizers: Dylan Turner & Chris Keeve
To submit your idea, please send a description of your project, preferred presentation style, and approximate length of the presentation (no more than 250 words) to Dylan Turner (dturne53@charlotte.edu) and Chris Keeve (keeve@uky.edu) by December 8th. 

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