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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… read more
Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Dr Susanne Schmitt, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, mobility, PD Dr Katrin Dennerlein, Prof. Dr Annegret Pelz, Prof. Dr Birgit Neumann, Prof. Peter Adey, Somayeh Dodge Ph.D, Transformation, Transgression, Volkswagen Foundation, Würzburg Winter School -
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… read more
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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)… read more
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CFP: Planet Ocean – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments – Extended July 14th
Deadline Extended JULY 14th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments Changing marine environments form a significant part of contemporary concerns around global warming. Rising sea-levels, microplastics, oil spills, and fishing practices are just some of the compounding environmental factors that scientific research attempts to tackle. Yet the sea is also an everyday space of both… read more
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New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature
New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature by Pamela Blanchard Faber Benítez Carretero-González, Margarita & José Marchena-Domínguez(eds.). One of the main goals of this collective work is to acknowledge the human and the other-than-human as part of a harmonic whole integrated in a common environment; that is to say, to suggest the study of the… read more
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Landscapes and Language Journal
Current Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1 (2019) Landscape: Heritage II Landscapes and Language Journal is an open-access, interdisciplinary and fully refereed e-journal, publishing work within the area of environmental humanities. The chief aim of this journal is to publish scholarly and artistic material that engages the interrelationship between language and landscape in order… read more
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University of Agder, Norway – PhD Course: Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment
25. Sep – 27. September 2019 PhD Course: Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment University of Agder, Norway Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment Ecocriticism, that is, research focusing on the relation between literature, culture and the environment, is a rapidly growing field both internationally and within Norway. As an environmental humanities discipline, ecocritical research… read more
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CFP: Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature From the forests of the tales of the Brothers’ Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from Piglet’s house in Winnie the Pooh to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13 Story Treehouse series, trees have been enduring features of… read more
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CFP: Interconnections – Interconnexions Inaugural Issue
Call for Papers: Interconnections / Interconnexions Inaugural Issue We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme. Our peer-reviewed, international, bilingual, open-access, interdisciplinary journal is devoted to theorizing what it means to think beyond both historical and current conceptions of ‘the human’ in ways that transcend… read more
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CFP: Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability
CFP-Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability Dear Colleagues, In January 2019, the EAT-Lancet commission released a two-year study on “Food in the Anthropocene,” arguing that “civilization is in crisis,” and that the urgent need for both healthy diets and balanced planetary resources not come at the expense of accelerating trends which… read more
