EASLCE news
EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stacy Alaimo February 11, 2015 (7 pm CET) “Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects.” Context: As Humanities scholars grapple with the idea of the anthropocene, one of the key questions may be how to conceive of the “anthropos.” Does the anthropocene demand the reconceptualization of the human as a concept, species, geological force,…
‘Pastoral: Past, Present, Future’ Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism is the journal of ASLE-UKI (the UK-Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). It is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis and supported by Bath Spa University and the University of Worcester. Green Letters explores interdisciplinary interfaces between…
Call for Papers: Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Humanities and Fine Arts Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Abstract deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015 Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively altering the ecosystems of the earth. Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen claims that…
EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stephanie Le Menager, University of Oregon December 13, 2014 (7 pm CET) The Cultures of Energy Context: The “cultures of energy” describes a branch of the environmental humanities that draws upon energy politics, the experiential and political dimensions of climate change (thus, aesthetics and affect), and the geologic turn associated with…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Green Letters 20(2) ‘The Ecology of Labour’ Guest Editors: Martin Ryle and Kate Soper Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism is the journal of ASLE-UKI (the UK-Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). It is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis and supported by Bath…
12th Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference Universidad Complutense, Madrid, March 25-27, 2015. “American Communities in a Global World: Challenges for the New Millennium” Panel Title: “A Sense of Place in the Literary Mapping of the Changing US South” Panel Chairs: Inés Casas Maroto, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Christian Hummelsund Voie, Mid…
Call for Papers Postgraduate Workshop: “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities” 10-11 October 2014, Munich, Germany The development of modern environmental thought and environmental discourses is inextricably intertwined with the historical expansion of colonialism and imperialism. European colonial occupation and settlement of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas depended on the notion that…
ASLE TRANSLATION GRANTS New ASLE Grants to Translate Ecocritical Books into English In order to support work in ecocriticism from international scholars and to expand exchanges across cultures and continents, the ASLE Committee for Translations seeks proposals for books to be translated into English. Proposed books should be ecocriticism or fiction/non-fiction with a clear relationship to…
ECOZON@. EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR LITERATURE, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: CREATIVE WRITING AND ARTS EDITOR RESPONSIBILITIES: The holder of the position will be responsible for the Creative Writing and Visual Arts section of the journal. N.B. This position is unpaid, as are the other positions on the Ecozon@ Editorial Board. They will…