Literature And The Arts

Literature and the Arts

Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante

Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…

Casa de Gigante, costal communities, ecotones, environment, José Duarte, Lisbon, Maragarida Vale de Gato, poetry, University of Lisbon

23.02.25
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos

The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…

Covid, digitized world, Escritos antivíricos, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Pandemic

23.02.25
Jane Ekstam. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory

Katja’s World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future in the form of an eco-friendly “ark village”. The village demonstrates not only new ways of building but also features the latest sustainable farming practices. Artificial Intelligence is used…

ark village, Jane Ekstam, Literature and the Arts, sustainable farming

22.02.25
Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz

M. Markwick’s works come after an invitation to an artist-in-residence program at the SilvrettAtelier Montafon in the Austrian Alps last summer. The exhibition will have eight works on display – some of which can already be seen on Michael’s website – and one piece will be added to the collection of the Vorarlberg Museum in…

Anthropocene, art, Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Literatur und Ökologie, Literature and the Arts, Michael Markwick, Painting

18.02.25
Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax

“Put on your hiking boots and prepare for an adrenaline-fueled journey around the world with Sax as your expert guide. Make stops with Gilgamesh at the Cedar Forest of Lebanon, with Dante as he enters a dark forest, and with Joseph Conrad’s Marlow as he navigates his way down a river to the Congo. Behold…

Book, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, forests, Guide, mythologies

01.01.24

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New EASLCE Bluesky account – Leaving X

Dear EASLCE members, The Advisory Board has debated whether to stay with X or leave for a different social network system. It has been decided that the best for EASLCE was to move to Bluesky, which has been adopted by many other academic associations such as ASLE and others. EASLCE Bluesky account: EASLCE.bsky.social How to…

December 9, 2024

EASLCE, Ecocriticism, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter
Arcadiana Blog Editor (3 open positions)(NOV 15th)

Blog Editor (3 open positions) The editors are responsible for running the Arcadiana blog. They are in charge of the blog’s direction, issuing general or themed calls for papers and contacting universities and PGR/ECR forums to invite contributions from a wide range of research areas. Tasks include: Workload: Co-editors will be responsible for monitoring the…

October 25, 2024

Arcadiana, Call for Blog Editor
ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…

August 20, 2024

AIR, ASLE, Call for Papers, CFP, conference, Ecocriticism, environment
EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine

EASLCE is deeply concerned about the dramatic situation in Ukraine and the military attacks that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have decided to launch into the sovereign state of Ukraine. We express our explicit condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has on the lives of innocent people and those in affected…

March 2, 2022

EASLCE, Russia, Statement, Ukraine, war
Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game? with Laura op de Beke

EASLCE Webinar “Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?” with Laura op de Beke May 30, 4–5:30 pm CEST Laura op de Beke Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, Screens, and Interfaces, Utrecht University, Netherlands In this webinar we will explore the emerging field of environmental game studies. After a brief introduction to the field…

April 24, 2025

Ecocriticism, environmental game studies, Laura op de Beke, Webinar
CFP – Gender in/and Nature in German Studies – Review and Outlook from an Ecocritical Perspective

English translation below (contributions accepted in German and English) Gender in/und Natur in der Germanistik – Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick aus ökokritischer Perspektive FrideL-Arbeitstagung: 23. – 24. Mai 2025 (Freitag und Samstag) an der Universität Stuttgart FrideL e.V. (Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft) [https://www.fridelev.de/] ist ein Netzwerk für und von Germanist:innen und alle(n), die an literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen interessiert sind. FrideL…

March 24, 2025

CFP, Ecocritical discourses, gender, german studies, women studies
Book Reviews for Ecozon@

Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott (Eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities. Routledge, 2024. [Open Access] https://www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-Dystopian-Explorations-of-Pandemics-and-Ecological-Breakdown 2. Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin Cosmological Readings of Contemporary…

February 27, 2025

book reviews, Call for Papers, Ecozon@, ecozona, environment, Literatur und Ökologie
Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante

Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…

February 23, 2025

Casa de Gigante, costal communities, ecotones, environment, José Duarte, Lisbon, Maragarida Vale de Gato, poetry, University of Lisbon
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos

The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…

February 23, 2025

Covid, digitized world, Escritos antivíricos, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Pandemic
Jane Ekstam. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory

Katja’s World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future in the form of an eco-friendly “ark village”. The village demonstrates not only new ways of building but also features the latest sustainable farming practices. Artificial Intelligence is used…

February 22, 2025

ark village, Jane Ekstam, Literature and the Arts, sustainable farming
Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner

Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…

February 22, 2025

Beat Generation Literature, Chad Weidner, Clemson University Press, EASLCE, Greening Bohemia
Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lü (eds.). “Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance”.

This Special Issue of Plant Perspectives explores the multifaceted relationships between scientific and artistic expressions and plants in various genres, from literature and art to dance and media. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume are linked by an exploration of the concept of ‘resonance’ as a potentially meaningful way of establishing and describing an ethical …

February 21, 2025

Gabriele Dürbeck, Language, networks, Plants, Resonance, Yixu Lü
Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…

February 21, 2025

Contemporary Norwegian Literature, EASLCE, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, Ecocriticism, Environment in Norwegian Literature, Per Esben Svelstad
Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz

M. Markwick’s works come after an invitation to an artist-in-residence program at the SilvrettAtelier Montafon in the Austrian Alps last summer. The exhibition will have eight works on display – some of which can already be seen on Michael’s website – and one piece will be added to the collection of the Vorarlberg Museum in…

February 18, 2025

Anthropocene, art, Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Literatur und Ökologie, Literature and the Arts, Michael Markwick, Painting

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Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game? with Laura op de Beke

EASLCE Webinar “Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?” with Laura op de Beke May 30, 4–5:30 pm CEST Laura op de Beke Assistant Professor…

24/04/25
CFP – Gender in/and Nature in German Studies – Review and Outlook from an Ecocritical Perspective

English translation below (contributions accepted in German and English) Gender in/und Natur in der Germanistik – Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick aus ökokritischer Perspektive FrideL-Arbeitstagung: 23. – 24. Mai…

24/03/25
Book Reviews for Ecozon@

Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle,…

27/02/25
Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante

Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis?…

23/02/25
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos

The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope…

23/02/25
Jane Ekstam. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory

Katja’s World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future…

22/02/25