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New EASLCE Bluesky account – Leaving X
Dear EASLCE members, The Advisory Board has debated whether to stay with X or leave for a different social network system. It has been decided that the best for EASLCE was to move to Bluesky, which has been adopted by many other academic associations such as ASLE and others. EASLCE Bluesky account: EASLCE.bsky.social How to…
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Arcadiana Blog Editor (3 open positions)(NOV 15th)
Blog Editor (3 open positions) The editors are responsible for running the Arcadiana blog. They are in charge of the blog’s direction, issuing general or themed calls for papers and contacting universities and PGR/ECR forums to invite contributions from a wide range of research areas. Tasks include: Workload: Co-editors will be responsible for monitoring the…
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ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…
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EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine
EASLCE is deeply concerned about the dramatic situation in Ukraine and the military attacks that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have decided to launch into the sovereign state of Ukraine. We express our explicit condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has on the lives of innocent people and those in affected…
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Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game? with Laura op de Beke
EASLCE Webinar “Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?” with Laura op de Beke May 30, 4–5:30 pm CEST Laura op de Beke Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, Screens, and Interfaces, Utrecht University, Netherlands In this webinar we will explore the emerging field of environmental game studies. After a brief introduction to the field…
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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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Book Reviews for Ecozon@
Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott (Eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities. Routledge, 2024. [Open Access] https://www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-Dystopian-Explorations-of-Pandemics-and-Ecological-Breakdown 2. Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin Cosmological Readings of Contemporary…
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Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante
Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…
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José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos
The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…
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Jane Ekstam. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory
Katja’s World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future in the form of an eco-friendly “ark village”. The village demonstrates not only new ways of building but also features the latest sustainable farming practices. Artificial Intelligence is used…
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Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner
Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…
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Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lü (eds.). “Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance”.
This Special Issue of Plant Perspectives explores the multifaceted relationships between scientific and artistic expressions and plants in various genres, from literature and art to dance and media. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume are linked by an exploration of the concept of ‘resonance’ as a potentially meaningful way of establishing and describing an ethical …
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Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…
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Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz
M. Markwick’s works come after an invitation to an artist-in-residence program at the SilvrettAtelier Montafon in the Austrian Alps last summer. The exhibition will have eight works on display – some of which can already be seen on Michael’s website – and one piece will be added to the collection of the Vorarlberg Museum in…
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Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game? with Laura op de Beke
EASLCE Webinar “Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?” with Laura op de Beke May 30, 4–5:30 pm CEST Laura op de Beke Assistant Professor…
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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…
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Book Reviews for Ecozon@
Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle,…
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Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante
Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis?…
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José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos
The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope…
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Jane Ekstam. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory
Katja’s World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future…