CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Unraveling The Anthropocene: Race, Environment, And Pandemic

Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic

The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State will be running a “conference-style” podcast to feature intellectual, activist, artistic, or community work happening around the contemporary crisis of race, the environment, and the pandemic. We are looking for speakers to have a recorded conversation about the work they are doing to document, alleviate, or understand these crises. Speakers would be volunteering to record a 15-minute long conversation about their work. The deadline for submissions is October 15th. Please see the flyer for more information.

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CFP: Edited Collection on Plants in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Call for papers: Edited Collection on Plants in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Literature Editors: Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb In conversation with the emerging field of critical plant studies, this edited collection aims to explore cultural and historical aspects of the representations of plants in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand… read more

September 17, 2026

Annika Herb, Aotearoa, Australian, Call for Papers, CFP, children’s literature, critical plant studies, Melanie Duckworth, New Zealand, YA climate fiction

EASLCE 18th Webinar: Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges

EASLCE 18th Webinar Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges Dr Adeline Johns-Putra, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China & University of Hong Kong Time and Date: 16 April 2021 – 11am CET (Central European Time) This webinar is concerned with the capacity of literary realism to address the representational and ethical dilemmas of the Anthropocene:… read more

September 17, 2026

Anthropocene, anthropocentrism, Dr Adeline Johns-Putra, environmental ethics, Webinar

IDK Call for Applications – Augsburg-Munich International Doctorate Program

Call for Applications Augsburg-Munich International Doctorate Program Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society Deadline: April 15, 2021 The University of Augsburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich invite applications for 12 Doctoral Positions in their new International Doctorate Program (IDK) funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Based at… read more

September 17, 2026

Doctorate, Elite Network of Bavaria, Environmental Science Center WZU, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, PhD degree, Rachel Carson Center, University of Augsburg

17th EASLCE Webinar: Transversal Aesthetics – Aesthetics Beyond the Human with Dr André Krebber

Transversal Aesthetics – Aesthetics Beyond the Human Dr André Krebber, University of Kassel, Germany Time and Date: 2 March 2021 – 5pm CET (Central European Time) In geometry, a transversal is a line that intersects a system of parallel lines. Transversal aesthetics represents a new sensitivity in aesthetics towards the affective integration of aesthetics into… read more

September 17, 2026

anthropocentrism, Dr André Krebber, Transversal Aesthetics, Webinar

Noted: Ekphrasis Journal: The Anthropocene and Intermedial Ecocriticism

Ekphrasis Journal Ekphrasis is a semi-annual, double-blind, peer-reviewed online journal of The Faculty of Theater and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. This journal is dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches in visual culture and publishes peer-reviewed articles from any field related to contemporary media and image related productions. Ekphrasis concentrates both on research and theory, and on practical… read more

September 17, 2026

Alexa Weik von Mossner, Ecocriticism, ecomedia, Ekphrasis, Intermediality, Jørgen Bruhn, media studies

[SEM] Session 2 – ‘Animisms,’ 10 December 2020 – LARCA,Université de Paris

The Environmental Humanities research group at LARCA UMR 8225, Université de Paris, in conjunction with the ‘Poietic and Politics’ and ‘Ireland’ groups, U Lille, are happy to invite you to its next session, entitled ‘Animisms,’ featuring Peter Boxall, Jemma Deer and Nicholas Royle (5-7 o’clock, Paris time, 10 December 2020). Peter Boxall will speak from… read more

September 17, 2026

Animisms, Jemma Deer, LARCA, Nicholas Royle, Peter Boxall, SEM

WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France

WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France, Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi describes a peripatetic pilgrimage that is equal parts a daily description of a 200-kilometre walk from the “wounded mountain” of La Verna… read more

September 17, 2026

assisi, Book, Cambridge Scholars, Robert L. France, WAYMARKING ITALY

CFP; Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse

Call for proposals Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse Conference Stockholm University (on location and online) 29.04.2021 Deadline for proposals submission: 15.01.2021 Notification of acceptance: 01.02.2021 In the past few years, discourses on collapse have been more and more visible in the public space, as if it was too late to address the major… read more

September 17, 2026

Call for Papers, CFP, Climate Change, Collapse and Extinction, collapsology, conference, dystopia, essays, Kulturpessimismus, post apocalyptic fiction, Science Fiction, Stockholm University, University of Tartu

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic

Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State will be running a “conference-style” podcast to feature intellectual, activist, artistic, or community work happening around the contemporary crisis of race, the environment, and the pandemic. We are looking for speakers to have a recorded conversation about the work they are… read more

September 17, 2026

Anthropocene, Climate Change, environment, Pandemic, Penn State, podcast, race