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CFP: Environmental Change in Nordic Fiction
Third Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies In the current climate of a global ecological crisis, visions and representations of the Nordic environment are undergoing a swift change. Traditionally, imagery of the Nordic and Arctic areas has been heavily influenced by the national Romantic ideas of purity and pristine wilderness, which still inform… read more
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Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in a Global Context
Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in a Global Context Thursday, March 14th at 4:30 pm EST The event is co-hosted by Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP). The goal of this event is to engage the Haudenosaunee Great Law of… read more
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Cli-Fi A Companion – Axel Goodbody – Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.) Cli-Fi A Companion
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement.… read more
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Opportunities: Human Ecology and Culture at Lake Mývatn, Iceland
Human Ecology and Culture at Lake Mývatn 1700-2000: Dimensions of Environmental and Cultural Change: The application period will be open for one month (deadline 15 March) for a unique graduate course in integrated environmental humanities and social sciences in Bárðardalur, northern Iceland, 16-26 August 2019. Aimed at masters and doctoral-level study, this summer course based at… read more
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CFP:Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment?
Title : Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment? A paradigm shift at the turn of our century. CFP American transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson are traditionally considered as the forefathers of nature writing. Authors – of fiction and other literary forms – have kept on writing about nature, whose definition is… read more
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CFP: TREES IN/AND/AROUND LITERATURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
TREES IN/AND/AROUND LITERATURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE University of Turin, Italy 21st May 2019 “I’m interested in the particularity of each Tree – it’s ‘thisness’ (haecceitas)”, claims Canadian land-artist, photographer, and poet Marlene Creates, thus hinting both at the specificity of each singular tree and at the uniqueness of certain species at different latitudes. Literature, among… read more
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CFP: REWORKING GEORGIC
Call for Papers REWORKING GEORGIC University of Leeds Monday 9th – Tuesday 10th September 2019 Confirmed speakers: David Fairer (Leeds), Greg Garrard (British Columbia), Sue Edney (Bristol) Including a reading of poetry and prose with Simon Armitage, Helen Jukes, and Jack Thacker The influence and spirit of ‘georgic’, as a genre or mode – named… read more
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CFP: Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction
Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction An International Conference organised by CECILLE (Centre d’Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) 7-9 November 2019 Université de Lille SHS, France Convened by: Thomas Dutoit (CECILLE), Sarah Jonckheere (CECILLE/IdA), and Laura Lainväe (EMMA) Keynote speakers: Sarah Wood, co-editor and advisory board of OLR and Angelaki, UK Jesse Oak… read more
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Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. read more
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CFP: Paradise on Fire- ASLE Thirteenth Biennial Conference
This year the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is experimenting with a two-part submission process intended to make the conference more participant-driven and democratic. The second step is this Call for PAPERS. Proposals must be submitted by December 15, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. read more
