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CFP: Culture and the Impending Ecocatastrophe: Narratives of Ecology and Sustainable Futures
University of Turku, 20th October 2021 Keynote speaker: Reinhard Hennig, University of Agder (Norway) “Nostalgia, Ecocatastrophe, or Sustainability? Environmental Storytelling and Ecocritical Theory” Call for Papers Nordic Summer University Study Circle ‘Narrative and Violence’ is inviting proposals for presentations for the Summer Session. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s Summer Session has been exceptionally…
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‘The Garden & The Dump’- two-day online conference
Aarhus University is pleased to announce ‘The Garden & The Dump’, a two-day online conference on the multitude of ways of seeing, thinking, and living ecology through visual art, cinema, magic and philosophy. The conference will include thesis seminars by Nicolai Skiveren and Aliya Say and feature talks by Timothy Morton, Michael Marder, and Chen…
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Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacements, October 6-8, 2021
Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacements, October 6-8, 2021 “We live in an era of unprecedented mobility: movement of ideas, goods, money and, increasingly, of people,” opens a 2017 UN report on emerging issues of environmental concern. While mobility and migration can be significant drivers of development and progress, offering opportunities to individuals and families, as…
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Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature book by Erden El
It has been approximately nine years since Rob Nixon coined the term ‘slow violence’ to express the slow but deadly changes in the environment which cause the suffering of the poor. These environmental catastrophes take place so gradually and out of sight that they are often ignored. While Nixon dealt with the issues of slow…
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EASLCE Newsletter Winter 15.2 2021
New EASLCE Newsletter Winter 15.2 2021! Dear EASLCE-members and friends, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley”, Robert Burns sentenced more than two centuries ago in his poem “To a Mouse”. Indeed they do! Without any warning, irrespective of our species, an imprudent plough or a regal submicroscopic pathogen can…
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News: Summary of the 17th EASLCE Webinar: Transversal Aesthetics
Host: Dr André Krebber, University of Kassel, Germany Participants: Julia Ditter, Northumbria University, United Kingdom (co-ordinator) Lena Pfeifer, University of Würzburg, Germany (co-ordinator) G. J. Hilton, Birmingham University, United Kingdom Molina Klingler, University of Würzburg, Germany Melina Lieb, University of Mainz, Germany Stefano Rozzoni, University of Bergamo, Italy On 2 March, a group of aspiring…
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Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs by Boria Sax
Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs Author: Boria Sax “In this erudite, wide-ranging and engaged work, Boria Sax explorers the cultural flesh that has been wrapped around the fossilized bones of these iconic creatures. He asks, ‘What is a dinosaur?’ and shows that the answer is not merely a…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
