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 Augsburg-Munich International Doctorate Program Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society Deadline: April 15, 2021 The University of Augsburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich invite applications for 12 Doctoral Positions in their new International Doctorate Program (IDK) funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Based at…
Transversal Aesthetics – Aesthetics Beyond the Human Dr André Krebber, University of Kassel, Germany Time and Date: 2 March 2021 – 5pm CET (Central European Time) In geometry, a transversal is a line that intersects a system of parallel lines. Transversal aesthetics represents a new sensitivity in aesthetics towards the affective integration of aesthetics into…
Ekphrasis Journal Ekphrasis is a semi-annual, double-blind, peer-reviewed online journal of The Faculty of Theater and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. This journal is dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches in visual culture and publishes peer-reviewed articles from any field related to contemporary media and image related productions. Ekphrasis concentrates both on research and theory, and on practical…
![[SEM] Session 2 – ‘Animisms,’ 10 December 2020 – LARCA,Université de Paris](https://www.easlce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Eric-Ravilious_1925_detail_2-e1607031259989.jpg "EASLCE – [SEM] Session 2 – ‘Animisms,’ 10 December 2020 - LARCA,Université de Paris")
The Environmental Humanities research group at LARCA UMR 8225, Université de Paris, in conjunction with the ‘Poietic and Politics’ and ‘Ireland’ groups, U Lille, are happy to invite you to its next session, entitled ‘Animisms,’ featuring Peter Boxall, Jemma Deer and Nicholas Royle (5-7 o’clock, Paris time, 10 December 2020). Peter Boxall will speak from…
Vol 11 No 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond To mark Ecozon@’s tenth anniversary, we are presenting a larger issue than usual, entitled ‘2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond’. Its aim is to consolidate, and to celebrate, what hasbeen achieved over the last ten years through the collective efforts of the journal’s editors,…
WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France, Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi describes a peripatetic pilgrimage that is equal parts a daily description of a 200-kilometre walk from the “wounded mountain” of La Verna…
Call for proposals Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse Conference Stockholm University (on location and online) 29.04.2021 Deadline for proposals submission: 15.01.2021 Notification of acceptance: 01.02.2021 In the past few years, discourses on collapse have been more and more visible in the public space, as if it was too late to address the major…
Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State will be running a “conference-style” podcast to feature intellectual, activist, artistic, or community work happening around the contemporary crisis of race, the environment, and the pandemic. We are looking for speakers to have a recorded conversation about the work they are…
Arcadiana is a blog about the environment in literature and culture. It is hosted by postgraduate members of the European Association for Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). Arcadiana was created in response to discussions in the 14th EASLCE Webinar “Ecocriticis Going Public” with Scott Slovic. During the webinar we discussed the important contributions that…
Vol 11 No 1 (2020): Cultures of Climate. On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction We have had a wake-up call over the last few weeks and months: the threat to society from pandemics has been systematically underestimated. Across the world, political leaders are now focused on slowing the rate of infection from the coronavirus,…
