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CFP: Climate change temporalities: Narratives, representations and practices
Call for papers/ Climate change temporalities: Narratives, representations and practices A conference on humanistic approaches to climate change University of Bergen, Norway, 5-7 August 2020. When we think about climate change, what first springs to mind is probably carbon emissions, extreme weather, draughts, floods, and melting icebergs. But climate change is just as much about…
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News:Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp
Webinar Report: Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp Summary Saturday, November 16th, saw eight enthusiastic ecocritics from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the UK, gather together for the 13th EASLCE webinar. The webinar was hosted by Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp from University of Mannheim, Germany. [ Read the full report…
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Call for applications: Configurations of Mobility: Transition – Transformation – Transgression
30 scholarships for advanced MA students and early career researchers (Ph.D. candidates, Postdocs) Würzburg Winter School Configurations of Mobility: Transition – Transformation – Transgression 24–28 February 2020 Mobility has become an interdisciplinary paradigm in academic research since the last turn of the century. In German-speaking contexts, the study of mobility has mainly been focused on…
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Webinar “Plant Studies” with Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp 16.11.2019
Webinar 16.11.2019 at 10 AM CET on “Plant Studies” Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp “Plant studies” is a very recent branch of critical inquiry in literary and cultural studies which, although discussed since the 1970s, entered public discourse only in 2013 with Michael Pollan’s article “The Intelligent Plant” in The New Yorker. Pollan is one among several…
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CFP: International postgraduate workshop “Ecocriticism and Narrative Form”
International Postgraduate Workshop Ecocriticism and Narrative Form 9th to 10th December, 2019 Graduate Center for the Study of Culture Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany Organized by Oikos, GCSC Giessen, in cooperation with the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE). Guests: Prof. Erin James (University of Idaho) and Dr. Michael Basseler (GCSC)…
