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CFP: Speculative Cityscapes: A Speculative Cultures Workshop
Cities are sites of crises. With climate disasters, democracy collapses, (neo) colonial and capitalist violence, cities become hubs where the full force of lives in crisis collide: from population density, precarious living conditions, and economic inequalities to toxicity, political movements, and the exploitation of nature to sustain life in the city, disparities become more visible within…
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Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)
University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence…
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New M.A. Program “Environmental Humanities” (University of Würzburg, Germany)
A new master’s program in “Environmental Humanities” will be starting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in October 2026. The interdisciplinary program combines concepts, theories, and methods from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to investigate the historical, cultural, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of environmental and ecological issues, such as climate change, mass extinction,…
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EASLCE Best Graduate Student Essay Prize – 2026
This year’s EASLCE Best Graduate Student Essay Prize has gone to Gabriele d’Amato. He holds a Joint PhD in Literary Studies from Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of L’Aquila (Italy). From October 2026, he will be FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University. Drawing on narrative theory, New Formalism, and the environmental humanities, his publications…
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CFP: Precarious Houses by the Water
University of Augsburg | March 3-5, 2027 Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to…
