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English translation below (contributions accepted in German and English) Gender in/und Natur in der Germanistik – Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick aus ökokritischer Perspektive FrideL-Arbeitstagung: 23. – 24. Mai 2025 (Freitag und Samstag) an der Universität Stuttgart FrideL e.V. (Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft) [https://www.fridelev.de/] ist ein Netzwerk für und von Germanist:innen und alle(n), die an literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen interessiert sind. FrideL…
Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott (Eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities. Routledge, 2024. [Open Access] https://www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-Dystopian-Explorations-of-Pandemics-and-Ecological-Breakdown 2. Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin Cosmological Readings of Contemporary…
Green Letters invites papers of up to 6000 words in length for a special issue on Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities, guest-edited by John Miller (University of Sheffield), Christie Oliver-Hobley (University of Sheffield) and Peter Sands (University of York). It is widely asserted that a ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is underway (Sessa, 2012). After extensive research…
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…