#CANSEE2025: Changing Tides
CANSEE is excited to invite you to Sydney, Cape Breton for our biennial conference!
Mark your calendars for July 14-16, 2025.
As always, our conference is more than just an academic gathering, it’s an invitation to experience the community and beauty of Cape Breton. Cape Breton offers rugged coastlines, crystal clear beaches, hiking trails, puffins, and a vibrant local culture where we can explore together what it means to build community that’s rooted in place with strong community relationships.
Location: Membertou Trade & Convention Centre
The conference will be held in Membertou, Cape Breton, at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre.
Membertou is an urban Mi’kmaq community offering hospitality, culture, and entertainment. Membertou is located just 15 minutes from the Sydney/J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport and a short drive from downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Membertou Trade and Convention Centre is also home to one of the top ten restaurants in Sydney, called Kiju’s Restaurant, and for the convenience of guests, they are connected via pedway to the Hampton Inn by Hilton Sydney.
Welcome to the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics Conference
This year’s theme reflects the dynamic and transformative forces that are shaping our world today from changes in our ecological and economic systems to cultural and social landscapes. Like the tides, these changes are constant and cyclical, offering challenges and opportunities for renewal and adaptation.
CANSEE2025 will explore how we can navigate these shifting currents using our intellect, creativity, and commitment to a more just post-growth future, leveraging ecological economics as both a tool and a community of practice. Join us in rethinking how societies can live, work, and thrive together while addressing the pressing need for equitable and sustainable transitions.
In Cape Breton, where the ocean meets the land, this theme speaks to the region’s identity and history. This setting reminds us of the importance of a community’s collective ability to chart a course toward a just, decolonial, and regenerative future.
We invite you to submit abstracts that engage with our theme “Changing Tides” and the related subthemes. Whether your work directly addresses one of our listed themes or takes an innovative approach that intersects, we encourage submissions that explore new pathways, heterodox economic approaches to understanding the world, and anything that inspires change. If you’re unsure how your research fits within the themes, we suggest selecting a “best fit” based on the kind of conversation you’d like to be a part of. Our review process is flexible and convivial, ensuring that a wide range of perspectives and approaches will enrich our conference.
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Location
Membertou Convention Center
50 Autwen Ma’sl Awti Membertou, NS Canada, B1S 3W3Submission period
January 1, 2025 - 12:00 AM until February 14, 2025 - 11:59 PM
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact katiekish@gmail.com .
