
ECOCRITICAL NETWORK FOR SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES (ENSCAN) WORKSHOP VI 13–14 June 2023, Helsinki, Finland This international workshop brings together scholars interested in Scandinavian literature, environmental emotions and empirical ecocriticism. Keynote speakers: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Wojciech Malecki. Organized by the Finnish research project on empirical ecocriticism led by Toni Lahtinen and funded by the Kone Foundation ( https://kirjallisuusjailmastokriisi.fi/ ).…

Hieros, Hierophania, Hieroglossia: Visions, Voices, Signs, Signification Symposium – Université de Reims – 14-15 September 2023 Presentation & Invitation The organisers of the HHH-2023 conference invite paper proposals from their colleagues in the Human Sciences who can elucidate the hermeneutical and semiotic principles which were operative in the ideas that peoples in earlier times and…

10th EASLCE bi-annual Symposium/10ième Congrès bi-annuel EASCLE European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment Perpignan, June 17-20 2024 Early-Bird Registration Deadline: March 5th Registration fees will be posted on Feb 5. 2024 Early-bird registration will be open until March 5th 2024 Speakers at the conference will have to register before April…

The University of Agder and the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) invite applications for the PhD course “Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment”, taking place in Kristiansand, Norway, on 13-16 June 2023. Detailed information on the course contents and the registration form can be found at https://www.uia.no/en/events/ph.d.-course-lit606-ecocritical-theory-literature-culture-and-environment . The course will provide insights into…

International Conference ECHIC- The European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres University of Ferrara Thursday 25 – Saturday 27 May 2023 Since the World Commission on Environment and Development published OurCommonFuture(1987), the notion of sustainable development has been continuously scrutinised and redefined. Sustainability has been expanded to incorporate environmental, cultural, legal, and economic aspects of…

A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground animal activist from the wrong side of the East River in Alexa Weik von Mossner’s debut novel about love, loss, and resilience in the face of global ecological crisis. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green,…

Host: Dr. Ursula Kluwick (Bern, Switzerland) On December 1st, 2022, the 20th EASCLE Webinar took place, hosted by Dr. Ursula Kluwick University of Bern) in two installments, focusing on the topic of “The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea.” An international group of scholars came together, eager to discuss various facets of the Blue…

EASLCE Webinar The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea Time and Date: 1 December 2022, 10.30-12.00 (CET); Dr Ursula Kluwick, University of Bern, Switzerland This seminar addresses shifts in perspective provoked by recent developments in the blue humanities. Interest in water began to emerge in the first decade of the 2000s, in the form…

ASLE & AESS IN 2023: PORTLAND, OREGON The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) are excited to announce that they will hold their next conference jointly in Portland, Oregon on July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. The theme of the conference…

Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique,…
