Call For Presentations: Transdisciplinary CUNY Conference on Organic Waste In NYC, October 2024

July 23, 2024 Amanda Rajnauth

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: TRANSDISCIPLINARY CUNY CONFERENCE ON ORGANIC WASTE IN NYC, OCTOBER 2024

Are you a researcher, full or part-time faculty, or doctoral student at a CUNY school who studies waste, or issues related to waste? Do you have preliminary, early, mid-course, or final research to present to an interdisciplinary audience? Are you free on October 29, 2024?

If so, consider responding to this call for presenters at Baruch’s fall conference: Climate and Compost: New Directions in NYC’s Organic Waste Policy taking place on the Baruch campus in mid-town Manhattan, NYC (full description attached). Dr. Samantha MacBride, adjunct assistant professor at Baruch’s Marxe School of Public and International affairs, will be organizing the event.

Baruch encourages topics related to the conference theme from any CUNY school, center, or office. They are seeking scholars to present work at any stage of development, speaking approximately 10-15 minutes each, in up to two moderated panel sessions lasting 1 hour 15 minutes each. They are looking for research in the following areas:

Community impacts of waste and wastewater management systems, including health, land use, housing, and economic dimensions.
Relations among compost, gardens/agriculture, and communities
Connections between organic waste management and climate change
Building-level labor and practice, as relates to work of custodial staff in waste management
Data transparency and good governance, inside and outside of sphere of waste management
Institutional and systemic racism, gender discrimination, ablism, and colonialist practice in urban waste management, especially around organic wastes
Measurement, statistics, and performance analytics around waste management governance
Other topics related to urban management of organic waste, in NYC or elsewhere.

Benefits of participation:

Share and discuss ongoing research with interdisciplinary colleagues
Build connections across CUNY schools
No registration fee or out of NYC travel required
BIPOC scholars and doctoral students especially encouraged to present.

Additional information:

There are no stipends or grant funding associated with this call.
Full draft paper will not be required, but will be read in advance by the Conference Organizer if submitted.
Undergraduate and masters level students may be considered for poster-style presentations.
Presentations from non-CUNY faculty and students may be considered but the CUNY community is prioritized.

How to apply.

Send the following information to the conference organizer, Samantha MacBride, at samantha.macbride@baruch.cuny.edu, with the words “Climate and Compost” in the title.