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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…
