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Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring… read more

June 4, 2026

Chornobyl, critical nuclear studies, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, Ecocriticism, econarratology, Fukushima
Report on the 27th EASLCE Webinar – Discover the Popsicule: How Pop Culture Shapes the Meanings of Science and the Environment (Crys Clitheroe, Anna-Sophie Jürgens, The Australian National University, Australia)

Thursday April 9th, 9:00-10:30 am CEST The focus of this webinar, which once again brought together an international and interdisciplinary group of participants, was led by Crys Clitheroe and Anna-Sophie Jürgens, who offered insights into the research engagement work of the Popsicule, a Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub hosted by the Australian National… read more

May 24, 2026

AnnaSophie Jürgens, Australian National University, Crys Clitheroe, EASLCE, hopepunk, Popsicule, Webinar, Webinar Report
4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities – Cappadocia University

4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities Cappadocia University, May 20-23, 2026 The 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference invites scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners to contribute to ongoing conversations that chart the multiple currents of water-centered thinking. We welcome proposals that examine the oceanic and the aquatic through literary, historical, cultural, philosophical, artistic, and ecological… read more

May 20, 2026

blue aesthetics, Blue Humanities, Cappadocia University, conference, The Blue Humanities
Sea More Blue, Ecozon@, Vol 17.1, eds Béné Meillon, Bertrands Guest and Marie-Pierre Ramouche

This trilingual volume of Ecozon@ has emerged from the Sea More Blue EASLCE conference held in Perpignan in June 2024. It gathers papers that cross perspectives coming from different cultures, places, disciplines, and that are expressed via various forms of art and discourse. It is part of a larger effort to promote of a blue, interdisciplinary take… read more

May 5, 2026

Blue Ecopoetics, Blue Humanities, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, Ecozon@, Meillon, Ramouche, Sea More Blue, Vol 17.1
Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art by Francesca Baroni

Water, besides being a central element of the environmental crisis, plays a profoundly symbolic and political role within contemporary societies. It is at the heart of numerous social struggles, embodying the demands of environmentalists, trade unions, and workers who oppose its privatization. read more

May 4, 2026

Arcadiana, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, Environmental Aesthetics, Environmental Humanities, Hydrocene
Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025; Ralahine Utopian Studies series) offers one of the first sustained analyses of climate fiction through an intersectional ecocritical framework. What happens when the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is challenged from a feminist and decolonial perspective? How can speculative fiction reimagine environmental futures… read more

May 1, 2026

Anthropocene, Chiara Xausa, clifi, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, environmental justice, intersectionality
Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

Nopólemo does not take pleasure in the atrocities of war, and for that reason he rejects viewing everyday life as subject to opposing choices—either this or that, black or white, with me or against me, truth or lie, good or bad. Life is blurred and made up of countless shades of gray. The greater the… read more

April 28, 2026

anti-war, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, Escritos antibélicos, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Short Stories, short-stories, war
CFP: ‘Ecopoetry: Compared Perspectives from Anglophone and Francophone Literatures’

Date: Friday, October 30th, 2026 Location: Paris 8 University, Maison de la recherche, Amphitheatre MR002 Traditions of ecological and nature writing and poetry about place and the nonhuman vary widely between different countries, cultures, and literary traditions. In the same way, the representation of nature and of relationships between humans and nonhumans in British and French poetry,… read more

April 23, 2026

Anglophone Literature, Call for Papers, CFP, Climate Crisis Poetics, Comparative Literature, ecopoetry, Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Ecopoetry, TransCrit
CFP;Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology

Français Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact | Glendon College, York University | October 15-16, 2026 The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical… read more

April 22, 2026

Call for Papers, CFP, Cultural Transformation, Ecolinguistics, environmental justice, Language Endangerment, Resisting Abandonment
Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,… read more

April 22, 2026

Annamaria Elia, Anthropocene, Book, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, Ecocriticism