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Report on the 28th EASLCE Webinar – Ask the Editors: Ecokritike and Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities

Speakers:  Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki (Associate and Managing Editor of Ecokritike, Series Editor of the Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities  Dr. Emily Elliott (Director of H-Net Journals) Friday, September 18th, 2026, 4:00-5:00 pm CEST This second installment of EASLCE’s new webinar series “Ask/Meet the Editors” brought into focus the journal Ecokritike and the book series Exeter… read more

October 6, 2026

Ask/Meet the Editors, EASLCE, Ecokritike, Webinar, Webinar Report
CFP: European Conference on the Fantastic, with the theme ‘Fantastic Spaces and Places’

Fantastic Spaces and Places The second European Conference on the FantasticKarlstad, Sweden15-17 June, 2027 Keynote Speakers Jerry Määttä, Stockholm University Jerry Määttä is Associate Professor in Literature and lecturer in History and Cultural Studies at Stockholm University. A recurring focus of his work is the ways in which popular literature and other cultural forms imagine… read more

September 19, 2026

CFP, other conferences, speculative fiction
Call for Essay Proposal: Essay on Water and Myth in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch

The editors of a volume under contract with Routledge’s Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series are seeking a 7,000-word essay on Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch. The volume focuses on rewritten water myths in English and situates itself in current debates in the blue and environmental humanities. It grows out of an international conference on the topic that the editors… read more

September 16, 2026

Blue Humanities, Call for Papers, CFP, Monique Roffey’s “The Mermaid of Black Conch”, Transculturality, Water Myths
28th Webinar: Ask the Editors: Ecokritike and Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities

September 18, 2026 | 4-5pm CEST In this webinar titled “Ask the Editors,” Professor Peggy Karpouzou, Editor-in-Chief of Ecokritike and Series Editor of the Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities, Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, Associate and Managing Editor of Ecokritike and Series Editor of the Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities, Dr. Emily Elliott, Director of H-Net Journals and… read more

September 1, 2026

Dr. Becky Taylor, Dr. Emily Elliott, Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, Ecokritike, Professor Peggy Karpouzou, publishing, Webinar
The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human by Boria Sax

From ancient fables to modern science, insects and their metamorphoses have long inspired human understanding of life’s transitions. This original and engaging book traces how these transformations have shaped rituals around birth, marriage, and death, while also provoking deep questions about identity. Through stories that connect Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream to figures like Kafka, Merian,… read more

August 9, 2026

butterflies, Chuang Zhou, Insects, Metamorphosis
Join the Orca Uprising: 11th Biennial Conference of EASLCE at Utrecht University, 14-17 April, 2026

The 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice[/caption]Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment took place at Utrecht University from 14–17 April 2026 under the theme “Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice.” Hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, this was the… read more

July 15, 2026

11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, Greg Garrard, interspercies, Join the Orca Uprising!, Kári Driscoll, Killer Whale, Orca
Special Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology — Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 41.1

Special Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Volume 41, Number 1 Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature announces the upcoming publication of Volume 41, Number 1, a special issue devoted to Italian Poetry & Ecology, edited by Jessica Beasley, Gabriele Belletti, and Silvia Valisa. The issue… read more

July 9, 2026

Gabriele Belletti, Italian Poetry, Jessica Beasley, poetry, Silvia Valisa
Dancing Bodies of Water: A Multimedia Research Creation Project Involving Dance, Video, Photography and Writing

directed by Béné Meillon, Université d’Angers, France Dancing Bodies of Water is a research-creation project associated with the Sea More Blue interdisciplinary ecopoetic research group based at Université d’Angers, France, and working on Oceanic and aquatic imaginaries, perception, and representations. The project was achieved over a period of two years and a half and involved… read more

June 30, 2026

Aquatic Fieldwork, Béné Meillon, Dance, ecopoetics, Multimedia Research-Creation, Multispecies Choreography, Ocean Imaginaries, Photography, video, Video-Dance
Call for Chapter Contributions: The Clash of Culture and Environmentalism in Irish Ecocritical Studies

Editor: Dr. Niamh Donnellan Publisher: Vernon Press This edited collection explores the influence culture has on attitudes towards environmentalism in Ireland. It demonstrates that working with indigenous peoples who have deep-seated relationships built with their landscapes offers nuanced interventions that can connect communities with place, promoting environmental awareness. This form of ecological intervention can provide opportunities for… read more

June 10, 2026

Call for Papers, CFP, Dr. Niamh Donnellan, Irish Ecocriticism, Irish Studies, Vernon Press
Panpsychismus im Nachhaltigkeitsdenken. Eine metaethische Reflexion by Madeleine Hugai

What does sustainability mean when nature is understood not merely as a resource but as a bearer of subjectivity? What underlying assumptions shape our current thinking about sustainability, and where are its limits? Madeleine Hugai demonstrates that prevailing concepts are heavily human-centered and thus overlook important aspects. As an alternative, she develops an expanded concept… read more

June 10, 2026

environmental ethics, Madeleine Hugai, panpsychism, Panpsychismus, sustainability

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