Category: Conferences
News about our latest conferences
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CFP: Precarious Houses by the Water
University of Augsburg | March 3-5, 2027 Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to…
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CFP – Speculative Climates: Hauntings of the Past Across the Humanities
Speculative Climates: Hauntings of the Past Across the Humanities International Doctoral Workshop funded by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of colonialism, (neo)capitalism, and the climate crisis is imagined in the Humanities through Gothic hauntings.…
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CFP – Fluid Archives: Rethinking Agency in the Hydro-Commons
In the “storied seas” of the Anthropocene, water is never merely a backdrop; it is an archive (Oppermann 2019). Its ebb and flow resemble the turning over of eternal epigraphs. The sustained contact between groundwater and surface water over centuries—and indeed, for as long as the earth has existed—has established persistent waterscapes that give life…
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CFP: AmLit: American Literatures; Special Issue on “Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn”
This special issue of AmLit: American Literatures explores the role of 21st-century speculative fiction as a central site for metamodern cultural production in contemporary Anglophone literature and media. Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen define metamodernism “[a]s a structure of feeling that emerged in the 2000s and has become the dominant cultural logic of…
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CFP: 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference – THE BLUE HUMANITIES
Call for Papers THE BLUE HUMANITIES Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye) May 20-23, 2026 Confirmed Keynote Speakers 2 more keynote speakers to be announced The Blue Humanities is a “current of thought” that challenges terracentric modes of knowing and envisions new ways of living with planetary waters in an era of ecological uncertainty.…
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CFP: Cultures and Citizenship
Call for Papers for the section “Cultures and Citizenship” Dear friends and colleagues, I’m happy to share the Call for Papers for the section “Cultures and Citizenship”, part of the Oxford Intersections: Cultures of Waste series (Oxford University Press), edited by Myra Hird and Cecilia Åsberg. I’m editing this section, which focuses on the ways in which waste, culture, and citizenship intersect—through narratives,…
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CFP Autumn 2026 Ecozon@ Special Focus Eco-crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment
CFP Autumn 2026 Ecozon@ Special Focus Eco-crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment Co-guest editors: Shanna Lino (York University, Canada), Maryanne L. Leone (Assumption University, USA) This special issue explores the intersection of ecology and disability. Recognizing the materiality of both human and more-than-human bodies, we invite articles that consider the possibilities afforded by eco-crip theory to…
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Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice – 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference 2026
“Join the Orca Uprising!” – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice 2026 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference Utrecht University, Netherlands 14–17 April, 2026 https://easlce2026.sites.uu.nl In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson describes the development and use of lethal pesticides and herbicides as the latest, deadliest, episode in what she calls “man’s war against nature.” Indeed, this war has a long…
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Biennial Conference Registration ASLE-UKI
We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Biennial Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), which will be hosted by the University of Galway, 9th, 12th-14th August 2025. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and…
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Call for Submissions: EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism
The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists of a stipend of 500 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference (at the University of Urtecht, April 13-17 2026) and the opportunity…
