Category: Call For Papers
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CFP: Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies
Call for Papers Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 16-18, 2022 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: ▪ Paola Cavalieri (Etica & Animali; The Helsinki Group, www.cetaceanrights.org) (Online) ▪ Monica Gagliano (The University of Western Australia) (In-person) ▪ Douglas Vakoch (METI International) (In-person) There have been many…
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CFP: Culture and the Impending Ecocatastrophe: Narratives of Ecology and Sustainable Futures
University of Turku, 20th October 2021 Keynote speaker: Reinhard Hennig, University of Agder (Norway) “Nostalgia, Ecocatastrophe, or Sustainability? Environmental Storytelling and Ecocritical Theory” Call for Papers Nordic Summer University Study Circle ‘Narrative and Violence’ is inviting proposals for presentations for the Summer Session. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s Summer Session has been exceptionally…
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CFP: Edited Collection on Plants in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Call for papers: Edited Collection on Plants in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Literature Editors: Melanie Duckworth and Annika Herb In conversation with the emerging field of critical plant studies, this edited collection aims to explore cultural and historical aspects of the representations of plants in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand…
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CFP; Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse
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…
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CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic
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…
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CFP: ECOCRITICISM AND OLD NORSE STUDIES
Fourth Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 26-27 November 2020 Ecocriticism, that is, research on the relationship between literature, culture and environment, is a rapidly growing field. With some exceptions, the focus of ecocritical research so far has been on the present and the recent past. However,…
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CFP: Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene Special panel at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Swansea University, 2-4 September, 2020. Deadline: 3 April, 2020 The environmental challenge to our collective existence is both more urgent, and more intractable, than…
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CFP: Climate change temporalities: Narratives, representations and practices
Call for papers/ Climate change temporalities: Narratives, representations and practices A conference on humanistic approaches to climate change University of Bergen, Norway, 5-7 August 2020. When we think about climate change, what first springs to mind is probably carbon emissions, extreme weather, draughts, floods, and melting icebergs. But climate change is just as much about…
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Call for applications: Configurations of Mobility: Transition – Transformation – Transgression
30 scholarships for advanced MA students and early career researchers (Ph.D. candidates, Postdocs) Würzburg Winter School Configurations of Mobility: Transition – Transformation – Transgression 24–28 February 2020 Mobility has become an interdisciplinary paradigm in academic research since the last turn of the century. In German-speaking contexts, the study of mobility has mainly been focused on…
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CFP: International postgraduate workshop “Ecocriticism and Narrative Form”
International Postgraduate Workshop Ecocriticism and Narrative Form 9th to 10th December, 2019 Graduate Center for the Study of Culture Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany Organized by Oikos, GCSC Giessen, in cooperation with the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE). Guests: Prof. Erin James (University of Idaho) and Dr. Michael Basseler (GCSC)…
