Changing Climates: Class, Culture, and Politics in an Era of Global Warming California Studies Association

Dates: April 11-13, 2008
Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2007
Location: Berkeley City College, San Francisco, CA

California faces economic and social transformations even as it grapples with policy questions forced by climate change. These challenges confront a state fractured along lines of class, race, and immigration status, and with little support for public services. How can we overcome political deadlock and respond to these challenges without deepening the fractures? What new opportunities for community, creativity, and democracy do these very crises offer? Join the California Studies Association for its 18th annual conference to address these and related questions.

We are soliciting panels of up to four speakers committed to raising important questions and engaging with a lively audience. Moderators are encouraged. Individual presentations may be accepted if they can be fit together into a panel. Non-traditional forms of discourse and presentation are welcome.

Berkeley City College is located in downtown Berkeley at 2050 Acton Street, accessible by BART and AC Transit. Lodging is available nearby. Other CSA information, including descriptions of past conferences, is available at http://geography.berkeley.edu/projectsresources/californiastudies.html

Please send proposals (preferably by email) by December 15, 2007, to:

Peter Richardson
Dept. of Humanities
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132
peter.richardson@sbcglobal.net