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EASLCE news
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Fragile: A Novel by Alexa Weik von Mossner
A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground animal activist from the wrong side of the East River in Alexa Weik von Mossner’s debut novel about love, loss, and resilience in the face of global ecological crisis. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green,…
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Summary of the 21st EASLCE Webinar: The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea
Host: Dr. Ursula Kluwick (Bern, Switzerland) On December 1st, 2022, the 20th EASCLE Webinar took place, hosted by Dr. Ursula Kluwick University of Bern) in two installments, focusing on the topic of “The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea.” An international group of scholars came together, eager to discuss various facets of the Blue…
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EASLCE Webinar: The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea
EASLCE Webinar The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea Time and Date: 1 December 2022, 10.30-12.00 (CET); Dr Ursula Kluwick, University of Bern, Switzerland This seminar addresses shifts in perspective provoked by recent developments in the blue humanities. Interest in water began to emerge in the first decade of the 2000s, in the form…
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ASLE CFP 2023-RECLAIMING THE COMMONS
ASLE & AESS IN 2023: PORTLAND, OREGON The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) are excited to announce that they will hold their next conference jointly in Portland, Oregon on July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. The theme of the conference…
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Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices, Vernon Press, 2022.
Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique,…
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Summary of the 20th EASCLE Webinar: Unruly Plants: Interspecies Relations as Challenges for Literary and Cultural Studies
Hosts: Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (USA) & Dr. Solveig Nitzke, University Dresden (Germany) For the 20th EASLCE webinar, we left our offices made of grey concrete and instead immersed ourselves in the world of “Unruly Plants.” We started off with debating the characteristics that make a plant unruly. We thought about unruly plants’…
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20th EASLCE Webinar: Unruly Plants. Interspecies Relations as Challenges for Literary and Cultural Studies
Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (USA) & Dr. Solvejg Nitzke, University Dresden (Germany) Time and Date: 21.06. 16:00 CET (Central European Time) Even if, as a gardener, you might be well aware that plants are anything but static, most of us look at plants as slow, if not still beings. That is, if we…
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Summary of the 19th EASCLE Webinar: Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Hosts: Dr. Julia Leyda (NTNU Trondheim) and Dr. Katie Ritson (Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich) Participants: Lena Pfeifer, (University of Würzburg, co-coordinator) Linda Hess, (University of Augsburg, co-coordinator) Auerochs, Florian (University of Vechta) Arutyunyan, Veronika (University of Hamburg) Famà, Santi Luca (Stockholm University) Filipova, Lenka (Free University Berlin) Nurmi, Tom (Norwegian University of Science…
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19th EASLCE Webinar: EASLCE Webinar Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Dr. Julia Leyda, NTNU Trondheim, and Dr. Katie Ritson, Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich Time and Date: 31 March 2022, 10:00 CET (Central European Time) In this seminar we will consider Cara Daggett’s concept of petro-masculinity and how this translates in the context of European petrocultures. The cultural face of oil dependence has been…
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EASLCE Statement on the War in Ukraine
EASLCE is deeply concerned about the dramatic situation in Ukraine and the military attacks that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have decided to launch into the sovereign state of Ukraine. We express our explicit condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has on the lives of innocent people and those in affected…
