Category: Call For Papers
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CFP: Ecology and Culture Mohamed I University
The Guiding Question: [How can Ecology be Communicated through Culture?] The natural environment is not only the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth’s surface, the plants and animals around us, it is everything that makes up our surrounding and affects our ability to live on the earth. The environment is…
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CFP: Energy, Ecology, and the Culture of Cities
International Symposium at National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan November 23-24, 2018 There is a long tradition conceiving of the city as a kind of parasite – the seat of powerful elites which, as geographer Guy Brechin has argued with respect to San Francisco, syphon food, raw materials, and labor from the “contado,” as medieval Italians…
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CFP- Ecofeminist Science Fiction Feb 1 2018
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume titled Ecofeminist Science Fiction. Interested authors should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published …
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CFP – Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement
Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms Research program Religious Matters in an Entangled World Utrecht University, the Netherlands June 20-22, 2018
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CALL FOR PAPERS: PETROCULTURES 2018: TRANSITIONS
The 2016 Paris Climate Agreement heralded unprecedented international consensus on the need to transition from fossil fuels within the next few decades. The uneven responses from state, corporate, and civil actors across the world clearly signify the challenges – and opportunities – that lie ahead. On the one hand, they demonstrate the enduring power of…
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CFP: International Conference on Environmental Humanities
International Conference on Environmental Humanities Stories, Myths, and Arts to Envision a Change* Alcalá de Henares, July 3-6, 2018 Call for papers Environmental humanities entail a transdisciplinary and transnational critical framework that is rapidly emerging in the last decade. This framework challenges traditional divisions among human, social, and environmental sciences, since they have proven to…
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The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community- 8th Biennial EASLCE Conference
Arguably one of the most alluring environmental images, the garden enjoys a poetic, aesthetic, and mythological presence across many cultures and throughout all ages…
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CFP for special issue of Green Letters
CFP for special issue of Green Letters: ‘J. G. Ballard and the Natural World’ ‘Is there such a thing as authentic “Nature” these days? Or is it now merely an adjunct to the electronic media, almost a TV gimmick? Is it rapidly turning into a theme park?’ (J.G. Ballard, Time Out Magazine, September 1987). J.…
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ASLE Twelfth Biennial Conference – Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Twelfth Biennial Conference, June 20 – 24, 2017 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu Eve: So this is your wilderness. Detroit. Adam: Everybody left. Eve: What’s that? Adam: It’s the Packard plant, where they once built the most beautiful cars in the…
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Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” University of Graz,Austria
Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” International Conference to be held at the University of Graz, Austria, 8-10 June 2017 The aim of this conference is to underline the specific relevance of literature and of literary studies for environmental and ecological concerns. As literature has addressed environmental issues in the past decades, and…
