ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference – University of Galway, 9th (online), 12-14th August 2025 The 2025 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the University of Galway, Ireland. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested…
Date: 27 September 2024 Venue: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. A one-day conference organised by Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3-EMMA) and Aurélien Wasilewski (Law & Humanities, CERSA, UMR 7106, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas). This conference stems from a reflection on the social and political dimensions of gardens and gardening in Great Britain ranging from the Victorian and Edwardian…
Call for Papers 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 20-22, 2024 Confirmed Keynote Speakers Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the “relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has “entered into fruitful interdisciplinary…
The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling | 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam | Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023. Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream,…
Recent Approaches to Environmental Humanities. Literary and Cultural Reflections on the Human and More-Than-Human World. The Journal of Ecohumanism which is published by Transnational Press London organizes a three-day online conference. The main theme of the Conference is “Recent Approaches to Environmental Humanities. Literary and Cultural Reflections on the Human and More-Than-Human World.” Dates: 17-19 November 2023…
10th EASLCE bi-annual Symposium/10ième Congrès bi-annuel EASCLE European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment Perpignan, June 17-20 2024 Early-Bird Registration Deadline: March 5th Registration fees will be posted on Feb 5. 2024 Early-bird registration will be open until March 5th 2024 Speakers at the conference will have to register before April…
ASLE & AESS IN 2023: PORTLAND, OREGON The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) are excited to announce that they will hold their next conference jointly in Portland, Oregon on July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. The theme of the conference…
Université de Paris/ ENS Ulm, Paris, France, October 20-21, 2022 Plenary speaker: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa “Is it I who have come to this age /or this age that has come to me.” In “Not early or late,” a poem from his last collection Garden Time, W. S. Merwin’s question speaks to the convening of this…