Fifth Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference

February 26-28, 2015

DOPE 2015 hosted nearly 400 participants and 50 panel sessions across myriad disciplinary and research affiliations from all over the world. The conference featured a keynote address by Dr. Kim TallBear (University of Texas) and a plenary panel with discussion from Drs. Jake Kosek (UC Berkeley), Shiloh Krupar (Georgetown), and Laura Ogden (Dartmouth). Field trips explored regional sustainable agriculture, Lexington history, and the Kentucky bourbon industry. Sadly, due to severe weather, we had to cancel an address by Dr. Paul Robbins and a field trip aimed at coal mining by mountaintop removal.

Meeting Details

Keynote: 'Disrupting Life/Not Life: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Interspecies
Relations and the New Materialisms

Kim TallBear
Anthropology and Native American & Indigenous Studies
University of Texas- Austin

Welcome Address: 'Trickster Science or Why Political Ecology Won't Go Away'
Paul Robbins
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin- Madison

Plenary Panel: 'Governing Nature'
Laura Ogden (Moderator)
Anthropology
Dartmouth College

Jake Kosek
Geography
University of California- Berkeley

Shiloh Krupar
Culture and Politics Program
Georgetown University

Irus Braverman
Law and Geography
SUNY Buffalo