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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
![Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez](https://www.easlce.eu/wp-content/uploads/forminator/38781_481d633e98286b20d73a20fd2bc5fbbe/uploads/e8LQTk0nCYvC-escritos-antibelicos.jpg "EASLCE – 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…
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,…
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…
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,…
Call for Papers RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE 8th Research Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 10-11 December 2026 Supported by the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Bonn Over the past decades, the concept of resilience has become ever more prominent in environmental…
Cities are sites of crises. With climate disasters, democracy collapses, (neo) colonial and capitalist violence, cities become hubs where the full force of lives in crisis collide: from population density, precarious living conditions, and economic inequalities to toxicity, political movements, and the exploitation of nature to sustain life in the city, disparities become more visible within…
