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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
