Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs Author: Boria Sax “In this erudite, wide-ranging and engaged work, Boria Sax explorers the cultural flesh that has been wrapped around the fossilized bones of these iconic creatures. He asks, ‘What is a dinosaur?’ and shows that the answer is not merely a…
Call for Applications 5th Annual Workshop of the Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature 9-10th November 2017 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy “Labour deserves the critical attention of green thinkers because it is both integral to the functioning and reproduction of our environmentally rapacious economy, and…
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2017With Dr. Simon C. EstokThe Ecophobia Hypothesis Saturday, May 20, 2017, 14:00 pm EU time Context: In The Biophilia Hypothesis, a book E.O. Wilson co-edited, Stephen Kellert explains that “the dominionistic experience of nature reflects a desire to master the natural world” (56). This “proficiency to subdue, the capacity to dominate, and…
Arguably one of the most alluring environmental images, the garden enjoys a poetic, aesthetic, and mythological presence across many cultures and throughout all ages…
CFP for special issue of Green Letters: ‘J. G. Ballard and the Natural World’ ‘Is there such a thing as authentic “Nature” these days? Or is it now merely an adjunct to the electronic media, almost a TV gimmick? Is it rapidly turning into a theme park?’ (J.G. Ballard, Time Out Magazine, September 1987). J.…
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Twelfth Biennial Conference, June 20 – 24, 2017 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu Eve: So this is your wilderness. Detroit. Adam: Everybody left. Eve: What’s that? Adam: It’s the Packard plant, where they once built the most beautiful cars in the…
Registration is now open for the EASLCE/ BASCE: 7th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2016 “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016) Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of…
EASLCE Essay Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists in a grant of 400 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference…
Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard Thursday, 26 May 2016; 19:00 CET Understanding Climate Scepticism: Environmental Communication Meets Ecocriticism Context Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. But in this webinar we ask: who do they think they are? What kinds of selves do sceptical texts project?…
“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016) Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in association with the Benelux Association for the…
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS To be considered for “Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics,” an edited collection under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, for its Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series (https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/ETAP), we invite chapters of 6000-8000 words…
