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  • EASLCE/ BASCE: 7th Biennial Conference “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability

    EASLCE/ BASCE: 7th Biennial Conference “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability

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    “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016) Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in association with the Benelux Association for the…

  • Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” University of Graz,Austria

    Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” University of Graz,Austria

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    Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” International Conference to be held at the University of Graz, Austria, 8-10 June 2017 The aim of this conference is to underline the specific relevance of literature and of literary studies for environmental and ecological concerns. As literature has addressed environmental issues in the past decades, and…

  • CFP: Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference

    CFP: Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference

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    Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference Grumello del Monte (BG) – June 6 / 8, 2016 The Centro Studi Città e Territorio, in collaboration with the municipality of Grumello del Monte (BG – Italy), presents “Landscapes of Wine in Italian Literature and Cinema”, an international interdiciplinary conference. The conference will be…

  • CFP Internationales Symposium Texte, Tiere, Umwelten. Zoopoetik und Umweltpoetik

    CFP Internationales Symposium Texte, Tiere, Umwelten. Zoopoetik und Umweltpoetik

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    Internationales Symposium Texte, Tiere, Umwelten. Zoopoetik und Umweltpoetik  12.-14.10.2016 Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover Gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung -Please find English version below- Keynotes: Kári Driscoll (Utrecht), Susan McHugh (Maine, USA) Aaron Moe (Notre Dame, USA), Kate Rigby (Melbourne, Australien) CfP – Projektpräsentationen Die Cultural and Literary Animal Studies formieren sich derzeit als interdisziplinäres akademisches Forschungsfeld auf…

  • CALL BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS

    CALL BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS

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    CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS To be considered for “Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics,” an edited collection under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, for its Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series (https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/ETAP), we invite chapters of 6000-8000 words…

  • EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016

    EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016

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    EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016 With Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Friday, March 4, 2016 (10 am CET) (Please register by February 22, 2016) Social Systems Theory and the Environmental Humanities Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, elaborated in a vast archipelago of texts between the 1970s and his death in 1998, remains one…

  • ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

    ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

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    ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 31ST August – 2nd September 2016 A change of (s)cene: reviewing our place in a new geological epoch ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland – www.asle.org.uk) invites proposals for its Postgraduate Conference to be held from 31st August – 2nd September 2016 at the University…

  • CFP: International Conference -The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry

    CFP: International Conference -The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry

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    International Conference The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry University of Bamberg, Germany, November 25-26, 2016 The environmental crisis and intensifying migration movements are among the greatest challenges of our time, yet they are only beginning to be understood as interrelated. So far, this junction has mainly been studied in the social…

  • SYMPOSIUM FIGUREN DES ÖKOLOGISCHEN

    SYMPOSIUM FIGUREN DES ÖKOLOGISCHEN

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    Eröffnungskolloquium des Interfakultären Forums für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies The Interdisciplinary Forum for Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS) is a consortium of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences and the sciences interested in promoting the institutionalization of the Environmental Humanities and Cultural Animal Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. A symposium…

  • CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language

    CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language

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    CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language 23-25 June 2016 This conference is co-organized by the English Department of the University of Geneva and by the Dirt Foundation. Please see our website for more information and for submitting your abstract: http://encounteringmateriality.org/conference/ Description What is materiality? As contemporary societies meet philosophical and earthly limits, we are being confronted…