Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions Fifth ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australia National University 19-21 June 2014 Submission of abstracts (c. 200 words) to [email protected] by March 30 2014 Perceptions, values and representations of our relationship with the physical environment have been read anew in the Anthropocene century through…
International Poetry Seminar/Poetry Lab Flow and Fracture from North America to Europe and Beyond: Reflections, Refractions and Diffractions within the Ecopoetic Avant-Garde (4-5 December 2014, Maison des Arts de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles) Conveners: Franca Bellarsi (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Chad Weidner (UCR Utrecht University, Middelburg, The Netherlands) Since the 1990s, ecocriticism has influenced…
Call for papers: Nature strikes back! Genres of revenge in the anthropocene – extension of submission deadline Special issue of “Australian Humanities Review”, due for publication 2014 Edited by Dr Catherine Simpson and Dr Nicole Matthews 300 word abstracts should be sent to [email protected] with the subject line ?Nature Strikes Back? by Feb 14, 2014.…
ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Day 1: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) and Dr Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick) Day 2: Mark Cocker and Professor Anne Milne (Toronto) How does one define a system? Be it an ecosystem, world-system, literary system, colonial system, the term itself,…
2014 EASLCE-NIES Joint Conference “Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning” The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) Biennial Conference Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) IX. Conference Hosted by the Department of Semiotics University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia, 29 April–3 May 2014 “No meaning without a frame”…
Rice University English Symposium: Ecology and the Environmental Humanities Rice University, Houston, TX September 13-14, 2013 Keynotes: Prof. Claire Colebrook, PennState University Prof. Timothy Morton, Rice University* The 2013 English Symposium at Rice University invites responses to the ecological and nonhuman turns in the humanities. These turns are undoubtedly responses to environmental crises, food shortages, global warming, factory farming,…
“The Greening of Everyday Life: Reimagining Environmentalism in Postindustrial Societies.” It is sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and will take place in Munich, 19-21 June 2014. Deadline for proposals is July 15, I welcome those of you considering submitting a proposal to Travel expenses for invited participants will be paid…
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK) The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf (Bram Stoker, Dracula) Wolves lope across the gothic imagination. Signs of a…