CALL FOR PAPERS

EASLCE members can send your call for papers following this link and protocols.

CFP: 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference – THE BLUE HUMANITIES

Call for Papers THE BLUE HUMANITIES Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye) May 20-23, 2026 Confirmed Keynote Speakers 2 more keynote speakers to be announced The Blue Humanities is a “current of thought” that challenges terracentric modes of knowing and envisions new ways of living with planetary waters in an era of ecological uncertainty.…
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November 9, 2025

Blue Humanities, Call for Papers, Cappadocia University, CFP, Serpil Oppermann, Simon C. Estok, Steve Mentz, The Blue Humanities
CFP: Cultures and Citizenship

Call for Papers for the section “Cultures and Citizenship” Dear friends and colleagues, I’m happy to share the Call for Papers for the section “Cultures and Citizenship”, part of the Oxford Intersections: Cultures of Waste series (Oxford University Press), edited by Myra Hird and Cecilia Åsberg. I’m editing this section, which focuses on the ways in which waste, culture, and citizenship intersect—through narratives,…
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October 22, 2025

Call for Papers, CFP, Cultures and Citizenship, Cultures of Waste, OUP, Oxford University Press, Serenella Iovino
CFP Autumn 2026 Ecozon@ Special Focus Eco-crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment

CFP Autumn 2026 Ecozon@ Special Focus Eco-crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment Co-guest editors: Shanna Lino (York University, Canada), Maryanne L. Leone (Assumption University, USA) This special issue explores the intersection of ecology and disability. Recognizing the materiality of both human and more-than-human bodies, we invite articles that consider the possibilities afforded by eco-crip theory to…
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July 15, 2025

Call for Papers, CFP, eco-crip, ecology and disability, Ecozon@, ecozona
Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice – 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference 2026

“Join the Orca Uprising!” – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice 2026 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference Utrecht University, Netherlands 14–17 April, 2026 https://easlce2026.sites.uu.nl In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson describes the development and use of lethal pesticides and herbicides as the latest, deadliest, episode in what she calls “man’s war against nature.” Indeed, this war has a long…
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May 19, 2025

11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, Biennial Conference, Call for Papers, conference, EASLCE, Silent Spring, Utrecht University
Call for Submissions: EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism

The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists of a stipend of 500 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference (at the University of Urtecht, April 13-17 2026) and the opportunity…
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May 6, 2025

Call for Papers, CFP, conference, EASLCE, EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism, Graduate Students, grant, scholarship, stipend
CFP – Gender in/and Nature in German Studies – Review and Outlook from an Ecocritical Perspective

English translation below (contributions accepted in German and English) Gender in/und Natur in der Germanistik – Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick aus ökokritischer Perspektive FrideL-Arbeitstagung: 23. – 24. Mai 2025 (Freitag und Samstag) an der Universität Stuttgart FrideL e.V. (Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft) [https://www.fridelev.de/] ist ein Netzwerk für und von Germanist:innen und alle(n), die an literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen interessiert sind. FrideL…
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March 24, 2025

CFP, Ecocritical discourses, gender, german studies, women studies

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EASLCE Webinar: Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard

Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard Thursday, 26 May 2016; 19:00 CET Understanding Climate Scepticism: Environmental Communication Meets Ecocriticism Context Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. But in this webinar we ask: who do they think they are? What kinds of selves do sceptical texts project?… read more

April 29, 2016

Christopher Booker, Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, denialism, Dr Greg Garrard, James Delingpole, Martin Cohen, Martin Durkin, Richard Bean, The Great Global Warming Swindle
EASLCE/ BASCE: 7th Biennial Conference “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability

“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016) Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in association with the Benelux Association for the… read more

April 5, 2016

7th Biennial Conference, autopoiesis, BASCE, EASLCE, poiesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles
CALL BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS To be considered for “Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics,” an edited collection under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, for its Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series (https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/ETAP), we invite chapters of 6000-8000 words… read more

March 6, 2016

Call for book chapters, Doris Bremm, EASLCE, Global South, Lauren Curtright, POLITICS, sustainability, URBAN POETICS
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016

EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016 With Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Friday, March 4, 2016 (10 am CET) (Please register by February 22, 2016) Social Systems Theory and the Environmental Humanities Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, elaborated in a vast archipelago of texts between the 1970s and his death in 1998, remains one… read more

February 12, 2016

anthropocentric, Duplicity of Culture, EASLCE, Ecocriticism, Webinar
ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 31ST August – 2nd September 2016 A change of (s)cene: reviewing our place in a new geological epoch ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland – www.asle.org.uk) invites proposals for its Postgraduate Conference to be held from 31st August – 2nd September 2016 at the University… read more

January 28, 2016

Anthropocene, ASLE-UKI, environmental criticism, Humanities
CFP: International Conference -The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry

International Conference The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry University of Bamberg, Germany, November 25-26, 2016 The environmental crisis and intensifying migration movements are among the greatest challenges of our time, yet they are only beginning to be understood as interrelated. So far, this junction has mainly been studied in the social… read more

January 19, 2016

EASLCE, environment, Germany, migration, Politics of Poetry, University of Bamberg
SYMPOSIUM FIGUREN DES ÖKOLOGISCHEN

Eröffnungskolloquium des Interfakultären Forums für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies The Interdisciplinary Forum for Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS) is a consortium of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences and the sciences interested in promoting the institutionalization of the Environmental Humanities and Cultural Animal Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. A symposium… read more

January 19, 2016

animals, Anthropogenetic, BJÖRN ALPERMANN, CATRIN GERSDORF, Climate Change, EASLCE, Ecocriticism, HERWIG GRIMM, IFCEAS, Interfakultäres Forum für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS), ISABEL KARREMANN, JESSICA ULLRICH, Literatur und Ökologie, MARTIN ULLRICH, Roland Borgards, Symposium, URSULA HEISE, Wuerzburg
Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis

Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled “Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis,” that will treat cultural production and practices related to “alternatives”—both critical and creative, descriptive and imaginative—that challenge the unjust and unsustainable systems that dominate at present.… read more

October 29, 2015

Age of Crisis, Call for Papers, drama, EASLCE, essay, fermentation fest, fiction, Patrick Jones, Perma/Culture, permapoesis, poetry, solar, tidal, wind
Call For Papers: HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies International Graduate Conference Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English Hacettepe University, Ankara/Turkey 15 March 2016 The Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies at Hacettepe University is pleased to announce its second graduate conference, “Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English”, which this… read more

October 8, 2015

Animal and Plant Studies, Ankara, Anti-Utopias, Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies, Climate Change Fiction, DYSTOPIAS, Eutopias, Fantastic Literature, Gender Studies, HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY, Postcolonial Studies, Racial Politics and Immigration, Space Age, Turkey, Utopias
Green Letters 21(1) – Modern warfare and the environment

Green Letters 21(1) Modern warfare and the environment A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath those clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile… read more

September 12, 2015

apocalypse, ASLE-UKI, Call for Papers, EASLCE, Ecocriticism, environment, Futures of conflict, global warming, Vietnam, war