
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016 With Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Friday, March 4, 2016 (10 am CET) (Please register by February 22, 2016) Social Systems Theory and the Environmental Humanities Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, elaborated in a vast archipelago of texts between the 1970s and his death in 1998, remains one…

ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 31ST August – 2nd September 2016 A change of (s)cene: reviewing our place in a new geological epoch ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland – www.asle.org.uk) invites proposals for its Postgraduate Conference to be held from 31st August – 2nd September 2016 at the University…

International Conference The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry University of Bamberg, Germany, November 25-26, 2016 The environmental crisis and intensifying migration movements are among the greatest challenges of our time, yet they are only beginning to be understood as interrelated. So far, this junction has mainly been studied in the social…

Eröffnungskolloquium des Interfakultären Forums für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies The Interdisciplinary Forum for Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS) is a consortium of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences and the sciences interested in promoting the institutionalization of the Environmental Humanities and Cultural Animal Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. A symposium…

Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled “Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis,” that will treat cultural production and practices related to “alternatives”—both critical and creative, descriptive and imaginative—that challenge the unjust and unsustainable systems that dominate at present.…

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies International Graduate Conference Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English Hacettepe University, Ankara/Turkey 15 March 2016 The Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies at Hacettepe University is pleased to announce its second graduate conference, “Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English”, which this…

Green Letters 21(1) Modern warfare and the environment A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath those clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile…

Dear all, We would like to notify that due to people’s demands we will extend the deadline for applications (of short bio and cover letter — and preferred presentation format: paper, chapter or poster) until the end of the month (July 31). Find the CFP attached. Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Workshop 2015, KTH…

Call for Papers: International Conference on Ecopoetics “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth” http://ecopoeticsperpignan.com/call-for-papersappel-a-communications/ Under the aegis of the CRESEM University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France June 22nd-25th 2016 Guest Writers Linda Hogan Other writers to be confirmed Confirmed Keynote Speakers Joni Adamson, Arizona State University François Gavillon, Université de Brest Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Université…

EASLCE Webinar Spring 2015 May 21st at 7pm CEST With Prof. Heather I. Sullivan The Dark Pastoral CONTEXT: As a trope, the “dark pastoral” engages the controversy in ecocriticism and environmentalism about which cultural forms are most productive for re-imagining the human and non-human interactions in the Anthropocene during what appears to be the Earth’s sixth…