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EASLCE news
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CFP; Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse
Call for proposals Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse Conference Stockholm University (on location and online) 29.04.2021 Deadline for proposals submission: 15.01.2021 Notification of acceptance: 01.02.2021 In the past few years, discourses on collapse have been more and more visible in the public space, as if it was too late to address the major…
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16th Webinar II – Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives with Alexa Weik von Mossner
Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives Alexa Weik von Mossner, Professor of American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Time and Date: Saturday, 7th of November 2020, 09:00 a.m. CET (Central European Time) Due to the high level of interest. Max Participants: 8 (Please register below) Recent years have seen an increased attention…
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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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EASLCE 16th Webinar: Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives with Prof. Alexa Weik von Mossner
Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives Alexa Weik von Mossner, Professor of American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Time and Date: 10th of October, 2020 – 09:00 a.m. CET (Central European Time) Registration Closed, please check back for our next webinar! Recent years have seen an increased attention to the ways in which…
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Announcing Arcadiana!
Arcadiana is a blog about the environment in literature and culture. It is hosted by postgraduate members of the European Association for Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). Arcadiana was created in response to discussions in the 14th EASLCE Webinar “Ecocriticis Going Public” with Scott Slovic. During the webinar we discussed the important contributions that…
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ECOZON@: Vol 11 No 1 (2020): Cultures of Climate. On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction
Vol 11 No 1 (2020): Cultures of Climate. On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction We have had a wake-up call over the last few weeks and months: the threat to society from pandemics has been systematically underestimated. Across the world, political leaders are now focused on slowing the rate of infection from the coronavirus,…
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Approaches to Climate Change in Environmental Humanities: PhD Course
PhD Course, University of Bergen,August 30–September 4, 2020 5 ECTS credits Language: English The course will be held digitally if the corona situation does not allow physical presence in Bergen. Can the humanities contribute productively to the inter-disciplinary field of climate change research? Some of the humanistic contributions to this field have focused on how…
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ISLE: Call for Applications: Poetry Editor, Fiction Editor, and Creative Non-Fiction Editor
The editors of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment invite applications for three new positions, Poetry Editor, Fiction Editor, and Creative Non-Fiction Editor. Deadline is May 5, 2020. Download Position Descriptions in PDF: ISLE Assistant Editor Poetry_Position Description ISLE Assistant Editor Fiction_Position Description ISLE Assistant Editor Creative Nonfiction_Position Description See more here: https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/isle-journal-seeks-new-assistant-editors-for-fiction-creative-non-fiction-and-poetry/
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CFP; 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. Please note the extended deadline: 24 April, 2020 The environmental challenge to our collective existence is both more urgent, and more intractable, than ever before. As ‘global heating’ looks likely to surpass…
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EASLCE 15th Webinar: Brexit Ecocriticism
Brexit Ecocriticism Greg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia, Canada Webinar Date and time: 2 May 2020, 10am PDT / 7pm CET The long-standing relationship between conservatism and conservation, and between nation and nature, was obscured by the stark anti-environmentalism of late twentieth century neoliberal conservatism. The vital role of ‘Englishness’ in…
