Category: Conferences
News about our latest conferences
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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)…
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CFP: Planet Ocean – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments – Extended July 14th
Deadline Extended JULY 14th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments Changing marine environments form a significant part of contemporary concerns around global warming. Rising sea-levels, microplastics, oil spills, and fishing practices are just some of the compounding environmental factors that scientific research attempts to tackle. Yet the sea is also an everyday space of both…
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Programme “Réenchanter le Sauvage Urbain” / “Reenchanting Urban Wildness”
Programme “Réenchanter le Sauvage Urbain” / “Reenchanting Urban Wildness” Sous l’égide du CRESEM-UPVDPerpignan, Francedu 11 au 14 juin 2019 Colloque international en écopoétique et humanités environnementales
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CFP: Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature From the forests of the tales of the Brothers’ Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from Piglet’s house in Winnie the Pooh to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13 Story Treehouse series, trees have been enduring features of…
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CFP: Interconnections – Interconnexions Inaugural Issue
Call for Papers: Interconnections / Interconnexions Inaugural Issue We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme. Our peer-reviewed, international, bilingual, open-access, interdisciplinary journal is devoted to theorizing what it means to think beyond both historical and current conceptions of ‘the human’ in ways that transcend…
