• Abstract submission deadline: February 10, 2025 (closed)

• International travel award application deadline: March 15, 2025

• Registration deadline: April 14, 2025

• Conference: June 18–21, 2025

Sand as a Relational Subject
Christine Winter, University of Otago, New Zealand

Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practice
Julian K. Agyeman, Tufts University, United States

Title forthcoming
Ariadne Collins, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

(More to be posted soon)

SHE meetings rely heavily on the suggestions and contributions of participants. Our aim is to make this event as broadly interdisciplinary as possible, bridging science, social science, and policy perspectives with literature, humanities, and creative arts. Contributions from all areas of human ecology—theory, education, research, and practice—are welcomed. Examples of recent SHE conference sub-themes include, but are not limited to:

• Sustainability issues

• Teaching human ecology

• Environmental design

• Conservation psychology

• Food systems / food security

• Literature and ecology

• Water-use policy

• Human-animal interactions

• Collaborative planning

• Urban ecology

• Climate change

• Environmental arts

• Historical ecology

• Eco-spirituality

• Environmental health

• Traditional ecological knowledge

• Political ecology

Thematic symposium: These organized Sessions should fill a 1 and 1⁄2  hour block and involve up to 4 speakers. Session organizers are invited to propose a theme or set of papers that expand on one of the conference themes noted above; other session topics are also welcome. The organizer is responsible for the coordination of participants. At this point, only provide session summary information and the names of your intended sessions speakers. Abstracts for the individual speaker’s papers are not yet needed.

Individual paper presentation: Contributed papers will be grouped on similar issues with time allotted for delivery and follow-up discussion, in a format similar to a symposium session (e.g., 4 papers per 1 1⁄2 hour time block). Only a working title and the name and institution of presenters is needed now.

Roundtable discussion groups: These groups are arranged by the conference committee to encourage exchange of ideas among participants. Usually, one or two discussion leaders are designated and 6 - 10 participants are assigned to a thematic roundtable. If you would like to be placed on a Roundtable Discussion Group, please reply with your areas of expertise/interest.

Poster: Space and time will be provided for poster style presentations. Submissions for posters follow the same guidelines as a contributed paper, (e.g. author, title and abstract). But only the presenter’s name and tentative title are needed at this time.

Ignite (PechaKucha style) presentations: Time slots will be available for Ignite presentations. These are rapid-fire, visually rich, PowerPoint presentations, in which 20 slides are set to advance every 15 seconds for a presentation of exactly five minutes. Ignite sessions will involve up to 10 presentations in an hour-and-a-half session and so feature about half an hour of audience discussion. These sessions are particularly suited to student project reporting but are also open to others. However, if you are also intending to give a full paper presentation you need to make that clear when you submit your proposal as there may not be room in the conference schedule for you to do both.

The Society can offer limited travel funding for conference participants. These funds are designed to assist individuals with financial need to ensure a broad representation of ideas and contributors to our conference. Specifically, these funds are designed to help attendees in the following categories:

• Students (undergraduate or graduate)

• Early career professionals (with up to 5 years post-graduate work)

• SHE members from developing nations

Several awards will be given in each category based on need. These awards will be for up to $500 for conference participants traveling within the European Union, and up to $1,000 for participants traveling to the conference from outside the European Union. Please follow the link below to apply.

International Travel Award Application

The 2025 conference will be hosted by the University of Mons at various locations in historic Mons, Belgium, located about 60 kilometers southwest of Brussels.

Click here to download more information about traveling to the conference venue.

Learn more about Mons here.

Other inquiries and general suggestions should be directed to the SHE-XXVI Conference Committee at

shexxviconference@societyforhumanecology.org

Continuously updated information about the conference (e.g., program development, keynote speakers, payment procedures, accommodation information) will be posted on the SHE website.