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French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Stephanie Posthumus (eds) French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017 Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt/Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment – vol. 1 ISBN 9783631713242 EPUB/PDF/Hardback This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human…
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L’Esprit Créateur – Daniel A. Finch-Race/Julien Weber (eds)
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Julien Weber (eds) L’Esprit Créateur Volume 57, Issue 1 (2017) – French Ecocriticism/L’écocritique française The latest issue of the journal L’Esprit Créateur contains 10 essays that seek to broaden the horizons of the environmental humanities. The first issue of Volume 57, guest-edited by Daniel A. Finch-Race and Julien Weber, is now available online via…
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ANTHROPOSCENERIES: ECOLOGIES, LANDSCAPES, AND STORIES
Università degli Studi di Torino May 30-31, 2017 The Anthropocene is the epoch in which humanity has become a geological force. Never before had our activities affected planetary cycles on such a scale, influencing climate, biodiversity, and landscapes. The impact on society is huge, with extraordinary migration flows involving people and things, natures and cultures.…
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Applications for a Junior-Professorship (W1) in Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Würzburg (Germany) invites applications for a Junior-Professorship (W1) in Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies at the Institute for Modern Philologies at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, starting at the next possible entry date. The holder of the post in question must have an academic background in American Studies and/or…
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Call for Applications-Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature
Call for Applications 5th Annual Workshop of the Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature 9-10th November 2017 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy “Labour deserves the critical attention of green thinkers because it is both integral to the functioning and reproduction of our environmentally rapacious economy, and…
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Webinar Spring 2017 – Dr. Simon C. Estok – The Ecophobia Hypothesis
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2017With Dr. Simon C. EstokThe Ecophobia Hypothesis Saturday, May 20, 2017, 14:00 pm EU time Context: In The Biophilia Hypothesis, a book E.O. Wilson co-edited, Stephen Kellert explains that “the dominionistic experience of nature reflects a desire to master the natural world” (56). This “proficiency to subdue, the capacity to dominate, and…
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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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EASLCE Webinar: Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard
Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard Thursday, 26 May 2016; 19:00 CET Understanding Climate Scepticism: Environmental Communication Meets Ecocriticism Context Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. But in this webinar we ask: who do they think they are? What kinds of selves do sceptical texts project?…
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EASLCE/ BASCE: 7th Biennial Conference “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability
“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016) Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in association with the Benelux Association for 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…
