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EASLCE news
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CFP: Ecocritical Perspectives on Nordic Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Nordic children’s and young adult literature has long reached a worldwide audience, due not least to the popularity of the works of writers such as H. C. Andersen, Astrid Lindgren, Selma Lagerlöf, Tove Jansson and, more recently, Stian Hole and Maria Parr. While nature and the environment play an important role in the works of…
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CfP: Cultivating Sustainability – Education and the Environmental Humanities
What is now known as the environmental humanities has become a recognised and thriving field, and invaluable work that tackles the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and energy consumption is being done in areas such as ecocriticism, human-animal studies, and environmental history…
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“Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think and Live With Nature in its Urban Environment”
This international conference comes as an offshoot of a previous ecopoetics conference on “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth,” which took place in Perpignan in June 2016 (with three collective volumes on their way to being published).
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Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) in cooperation with the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, is launching an electronic multi/interdisciplinary open access, refereed journal with the title Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone…
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CFP: War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia
CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia October 20-21, 2018 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan In this context, we would like to invite proposals that explore the question of war and peace and the environment in East Asia,…
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CFP: Ecology and Culture Mohamed I University
The Guiding Question: [How can Ecology be Communicated through Culture?] The natural environment is not only the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth’s surface, the plants and animals around us, it is everything that makes up our surrounding and affects our ability to live on the earth. The environment is…
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CFP: Energy, Ecology, and the Culture of Cities
International Symposium at National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan November 23-24, 2018 There is a long tradition conceiving of the city as a kind of parasite – the seat of powerful elites which, as geographer Guy Brechin has argued with respect to San Francisco, syphon food, raw materials, and labor from the “contado,” as medieval Italians…
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CFP- Ecofeminist Science Fiction Feb 1 2018
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume titled Ecofeminist Science Fiction. Interested authors should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published …
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Bifrost Online – Paris Agreement
Bifrost Online’s inaugural blog looks back, and forward, at the meaning of the Paris Agreement.”
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Italy and the Environmental Humanities -Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy–as a territory of both matter and imagination–through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of…
