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CFP: Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies
Call for Papers Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 16-18, 2022 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: ▪ Paola Cavalieri (Etica & Animali; The Helsinki Group, www.cetaceanrights.org) (Online) ▪ Monica Gagliano (The University of Western Australia) (In-person) ▪ Douglas Vakoch (METI International) (In-person) There have been many…
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Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities
Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities is a bilingual, interdisciplinary volume which proposes alternatives to the myth of human exceptionalism and suggests overcoming the so-called Anthropocene while imagining just futures. This collection of essays offers critical reflections in different areas: philosophy, politics, literary analysis, artistic practice, and pedagogy. It tackles issues such as the cultural consequences…
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Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino
Are chickens going extinct? What is it like to be a white gorilla in Barcelona’s zoo? How threatening can be an ant? And how endangered are humans, in the industrial and capitalist biosphere? Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino (Cambridge UP) explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino’s…
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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…
