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New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature
New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature by Pamela Blanchard Faber Benítez Carretero-González, Margarita & José Marchena-Domínguez(eds.). One of the main goals of this collective work is to acknowledge the human and the other-than-human as part of a harmonic whole integrated in a common environment; that is to say, to suggest the study of the…
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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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Landscapes and Language Journal
Current Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1 (2019) Landscape: Heritage II Landscapes and Language Journal is an open-access, interdisciplinary and fully refereed e-journal, publishing work within the area of environmental humanities. The chief aim of this journal is to publish scholarly and artistic material that engages the interrelationship between language and landscape in order…
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University of Agder, Norway – PhD Course: Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment
25. Sep – 27. September 2019 PhD Course: Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment University of Agder, Norway Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment Ecocriticism, that is, research focusing on the relation between literature, culture and the environment, is a rapidly growing field both internationally and within Norway. As an environmental humanities discipline, ecocritical research…
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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…
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CFP: Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability
CFP-Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability Dear Colleagues, In January 2019, the EAT-Lancet commission released a two-year study on “Food in the Anthropocene,” arguing that “civilization is in crisis,” and that the urgent need for both healthy diets and balanced planetary resources not come at the expense of accelerating trends which…
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CFP: Environmental Change in Nordic Fiction
Third Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies In the current climate of a global ecological crisis, visions and representations of the Nordic environment are undergoing a swift change. Traditionally, imagery of the Nordic and Arctic areas has been heavily influenced by the national Romantic ideas of purity and pristine wilderness, which still inform…
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Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in a Global Context
Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in a Global Context Thursday, March 14th at 4:30 pm EST The event is co-hosted by Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP). The goal of this event is to engage the Haudenosaunee Great Law of…
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Cli-Fi A Companion – Axel Goodbody – Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.) Cli-Fi A Companion
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement.…
