ICC 2024 will take place February 16-17th at the University of Georgia Special Collections Library, with some hybrid and online options. This year’s theme is New Visions for Conservation. Since the inaugural conference in 2018, ICC has brought students, researchers, and practitioners together to share their work and collaborate towards different futures for environmental conservation.
New Visions for Conservation: The concept of “conservation” has come under scrutiny in recent years. Critiques leveled against conservation highlight its tendency to separate people from the non-human world, its elevation of formal expertise at the expense of local knowledge, its role in dispossession and the disruption of lifeways, and the persistent disparities that conservation scholars and practitioners confront throughout higher education and later career stages. What would it mean to re-envision conservation as something other than its most troubling legacies? How might conservation be reconciled with paradigms, practices, and knowledges that have traditionally been excluded? How are students, researchers, and conservationists doing conservation differently, and how are Indigenous and other people with longstanding ties to place asserting their visions for more just and livable futures? This conference aspires to bring diverse perspectives together to explore the past, present, and possible futures of this complex and contested concept.
The 2024 conference objectives are to:
- Create opportunities for all attendees to question and re-imagine our own practices.
- Value and center multiple ways of knowing, doing, and being by bringing together perspectives both within and traditionally outside of conservation.
- Provide opportunities for student engagement, mentorship, and peer support.
- Cultivate visions of, and collaborations oriented towards, more just and livable futures.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS
The Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia is happy to announce the call for submissions for the 2024 Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC). With this year’s theme of New Visions for Conservation, we hope to further rethink conservation both within and outside of the academy. We welcome proposals for organized sessions as well as presentations, including posters and creative contributions.
- Deadline for submission: November 6, 2023
- Notification of acceptance by November 20, 2023
Organized Session Guidelines
We welcome proposals for 90-minute sessions of diverse formats including curated conversations, roundtables, workshops, performances, and coordinated paper presentations. Session organizers will be responsible for identifying and inviting their session’s participants. We encourage organizers to seek a diverse group of participants whose work will allow for dialogue across different theoretical or disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, communication forms, and sociocultural contexts. Submissions for organized sessions should include:
- Name, contact information, and affiliation(s) for all session organizers
- Select the session type: Roundtable, Workshop, Creative session or performance, Coordinated paper presentations, or Curated conversation (dialogues or facilitated discussion which brings perspectives together that aren’t typically in conversation)
- Abstract of up to 250 words
- Within your abstract, briefly describe the session format, explain how the submission speaks to the theme of “New Visions for Conservation,” and how it advances one or more conference objectives listed above.
Presentation Guidelines
Possible formats include short performances, spoken word poetry, and traditional research presentations. Submissions will be organized by the Program Committee into thematic sessions. We also welcome submissions for a poster session, including non-traditional posters and visual art. Submissions for presentations should include:
- Name(s), contact information, and affiliation(s)
- Abstract of up to 250 words
- Select the presentation type: Traditional research presentation or Creative or expressive presentation (performances, spoken word poetry, etc.)
- Within your abstract, briefly describe the presentation format, explain how the submission speaks to the theme of “New Visions for Conservation,” and how it advances one or more conference objectives listed above.
The deadline for submissions is November 6, 2023 at 11:59pm (your time zone).
For questions about the submission process, formats, or the conference program please contact the Program Chair at christina.crespo25@uga.edu.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CICR has coordinated the Integrative Conservation Conference since 2018; programs from past events are included below:
For questions about the submission process, formats, or the conference program please contact the Program Chair at christina.crespo25@uga.edu. For general questions about the conference, please contact icc-cicr@uga.edu.
