CFP – Reading and Writing the World: Perception and Identity in the Era of Climate Change
An International Conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) in collaboration with CECILLE (Centre d'Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères)
CFP – Water, Animals, and Arctic Climate Change: An International Symposium
Water, Animals, and Arctic Climate Change: An International Symposium
The symposium will shift the focus from purely textual ecocriticism to the recent breakthroughs in material ecocriticism and explore the creative role of materiality in narrative meaning-making.
CFP – “The Desert and the USA”
International transdisciplinary symposium organized by HCTI (EA 4249) November 21-23, 2019 at the Université Bretagne Sud in Lorient, South Brittany, France.
Nature Writing’s Future Pasts – Land Lines Conference CFP
Nature Writing’s Future Pasts – Land Lines Conference CFP British nature writing can be understood as both a product of and a... Read More
CFP: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices
We face an unparalleled historical situation of global multispecies suffering, variously known as the Anthropocene, or the New Climatic Regime, and signalled by alarming states of exposure and precarity in more-than-human worlds. The question of how to nurture liveable futures for 'us' – while also asking who and what might be included in this 'us' and with what consequences – depends on our abilities and willingness to re-negotiate means of entering into relations and, indeed, conversations with nonhumans, be they other species, microbes or machines.
Call for Panels – Paradise on Fire: ASLE Thirteenth Biennial Conference
The Biennial ASLE Conference “Paradise on Fire” explores the connections among storytelling, real and imagined landscapes, future-making, activism, environed spaces, differential exclusions, long histories, and the disaster-prone terrains of the Anthropocene.
CFP: Ecocritical Perspectives on Nordic Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Nordic children’s and young adult literature has long reached a worldwide audience, due not least to the popularity of the works of writers such as H. C. Andersen, Astrid Lindgren, Selma Lagerlöf, Tove Jansson and, more recently, Stian Hole and Maria Parr. While nature and the environment play an important role in the works of these authors and in much of Nordic children’s and young adult literature, there is still relatively little ecocritical research on this corpus. As in ecocriticism generally, much of the ecocritical focus within the field of children’s and young adult literature so far has been on Anglophone texts.
CfP: Cultivating Sustainability – Education and the Environmental Humanities
What is now known as the environmental humanities has become a recognised and thriving field, and invaluable work that tackles the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and energy consumption is being done in areas such as ecocriticism, human-animal studies, and environmental history...
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) in cooperation with the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, is launching an electronic multi/interdisciplinary open access, refereed journal with the title Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media (Ex-Na).
CFP: War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia
War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia
October 20-21, 2018
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
In this context, we would like to invite proposals that explore the question of war and peace and the environment in East Asia, and beyond.