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Summary of the 14th EASLCE Webinar: Ecocritics Going Public
Scott Slovic opened the webinar with an introduction into the world of the public intellectual, a figure that is explored in depth in the writings we prepared for the webinar. Rather than letting ourselves be pushed to the side while scholars in the fields of economics, public policy, law and the natural sciences dominate public…
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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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EASLCE 14th Webinar: Ecocritics Going Public: Using Our Knowledge for Public Good
Scott Slovic, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USA EASLCE Webinar Date and time: April 5th, 10am PST / 7pm CET Many students, teachers, and researchers have been drawn to the environmental humanities because of a desire to contribute, through academic work, to the well-being of society and the planet—but sometimes practitioners feel unprepared…
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The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children – Correcting Culture’s Error By Lorraine Kerslake
Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature. This book identifies the importance of Hughes’s children’s writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes to nature in his children’s literature is closely linked to the development of his…
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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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News:Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp
Webinar Report: Summary of the 13th EASLCE Webinar: Plant Studies by Christa Grewe-Volpp Summary Saturday, November 16th, saw eight enthusiastic ecocritics from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the UK, gather together for the 13th EASLCE webinar. The webinar was hosted by Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp from University of Mannheim, Germany. [ Read the full report…
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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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Webinar “Plant Studies” with Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp 16.11.2019
Webinar 16.11.2019 at 10 AM CET on “Plant Studies” Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp “Plant studies” is a very recent branch of critical inquiry in literary and cultural studies which, although discussed since the 1970s, entered public discourse only in 2013 with Michael Pollan’s article “The Intelligent Plant” in The New Yorker. Pollan is one among several…
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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)…
