[oberlist] CA* cfp: Petrocultures 2016 - The Offshore (Memorial U, St. John's, NL, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2016)

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Subject: [CultTheory] CFP: Petrocultures 2016 - The Offshore (Memorial U,
St. John's, NL, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2016)
From:    "Imre Szeman" <imre at ualberta.ca>
Date:    Mon, June 29, 2015 6:41 pm
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*Call For Papers*



*Petrocultures 2016:*

*The Offshore*



Memorial University

St. John’s, Newfoundland

August 31 – September 3, 2016





Approximately a third of all oil and gas production takes place offshore,
and this proportion is continually increasing as companies push into ever
deeper and more remote locations. Oil is sought and extracted from the
Arctic Ocean to the South China Sea, from Bass Strait to the Niger Delta.
In addition, oil is a key commodity of seaborne trade. According to recent
UN Conference on Trade and Development statistics, nearly three billion
metric tons of crude oil, gas, and petroleum products are shipped annually
worldwide.

Despite the fact our economies and lifestyles depend so heavily on the oil
industry, much of the work and infrastructure associated with it, to say
nothing of the deposits themselves, are situated out of plain sight. This
relative invisibility makes the cultural imaginaries of oil, particularly
deepwater offshore oil, highly powerful. *Petrocultures 2016* will provide
an important forum for examining such figurations, including how they
relate to framings of alternative forms of energy, such as wind and tidal
power.

Newfoundland and Labrador is an excellent location from which to
contemplate petrocultural matters. The Canadian province is highly
dependent on its offshore oil industry, and prone to the ongoing social and
economic instability that typically accompanies such reliance. Given
Newfoundland and Labrador’s North Atlantic geographic and geological
contexts, there are also especially illuminating parallels to be drawn
between its experience and that of other offshore oil-producing places in
the region, such as Ireland, Scotland, and Norway.

            *Petrocultures 2016* will bring together scholars,
policy-makers, industry employees, artists, and public advocacy groups from
across North America and beyond. Confirmed Keynote Speakers include: Barbara
Neis
<http://www.onthemovepartnership.ca/people/co-investigators/barbara-neis/>
(Memorial University); John Urry
<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/john-urry> (Lancaster
University) Helge Ryggvik
<http://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/people/aca/hryggvik/> (University of
Oslo); Graeme MacDonald
<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/macdonald/> (University
of Warwick); and, Elizabeth Nyman <http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~exn1161/>
(University of Louisiana at Lafayette).

We seek proposals for papers and panels that address themes related to the
offshore and/or petrocultures more generally. Papers and panels can be
academic, creative, or any combination of the two. We ask that paper
proposals be no more than 200 words in length, and that panel proposals
have a 200-word description of the topic along with a list of paper titles.
All submissions must include a 100-word biographical statement for each
presenter.



Topics this conference will explore include, but are not limited to:



- Energy’s cultural imaginaries

- Resource histories (including relations between old and new uses of the
sea’s resources)

- Offshore futures (derelict rigs and climate change)

- The sea as commons

- Safety/Risk (including the Arctic/Far
North)

- Oil and mobility

- Labour/Workforce

- Indigenous and non-Indigenous community responses to energy



Please send proposals and biographical statements as soon as possible, but
no later than *January 5, 2016* to both Danine Farquharson (daninef at mun.ca)
and Fiona Polack (fpolack at mun.ca).
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