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EASLCE news
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Cultural and Literary Animal Studies
Journal of Literary Theory Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015) Cultural and Literary Animal Studies Guest Editor: Roland Borgards (University of Würzburg, Germany) In recent years, animal studies have become established as an important interdisciplinary field of research. Cultural and literary studies, too, have dealt in a new way with the discourse on animals and the…
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CFP: Sixth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse
The Sixth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse 第六屆淡江大學國際生態論述會議 時間: 2014年12月19-20日 地點: 淡江大學 (新北市淡水區英專路151號) Call for Papers We take great pleasure in announcing the sixth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, to be hosted by the English Department at Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, on December 19-20, 2014. The general theme of the conference is “Speculative Materialism:…
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The Anthroposcene: Artists and Writers in Critical Dialogue with Nature and Ecosystem
Please join us for “The Anthroposcene: Artists and Writers in Critical Dialogue with Nature and Ecosystems” 17-18 June 2014 at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University in Canberra. The pre-conference workshop will be held in conjunction with our biennial conference, this year on the theme “Affective Habitus,” 19-21 June, also at ANU. An…
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Fifth ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference
Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions Fifth ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australia National University 19-21 June 2014 Submission of abstracts (c. 200 words) to [email protected] by March 30 2014 Perceptions, values and representations of our relationship with the physical environment have been read anew in the Anthropocene century through…
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Workshop & Conference: Imagining Earth at Zukunftsakademie NRW
Workshop & Conference Imagining »Earth« Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ 29.-31.05.2014 Zukunftsakademie NRW, Humboldtstr. 40; 44787 Bochum (Germany) Web: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/imagining-earth Contact: Solvejg Nitzke [email protected] Title: Imagining Earth. Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance.…
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Flow and Fracture: International Poetry Seminar/Poetry Lab
International Poetry Seminar/Poetry Lab Flow and Fracture from North America to Europe and Beyond: Reflections, Refractions and Diffractions within the Ecopoetic Avant-Garde (4-5 December 2014, Maison des Arts de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles) Conveners: Franca Bellarsi (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Chad Weidner (UCR Utrecht University, Middelburg, The Netherlands) Since the 1990s, ecocriticism has influenced…
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Call for papers: Nature strikes back!
Call for papers: Nature strikes back! Genres of revenge in the anthropocene – extension of submission deadline Special issue of “Australian Humanities Review”, due for publication 2014 Edited by Dr Catherine Simpson and Dr Nicole Matthews 300 word abstracts should be sent to [email protected] with the subject line ?Nature Strikes Back? by Feb 14, 2014.…
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Public Lecture Competition: The 2014 INSPIRE Lecture on Literature and Sustainability
Public Lecture Competition: The 2014 INSPIRE Lecture on Literature and Sustainability Conditions of Entry GENERAL Entrants should submit the text of a half-hour public lecture that considers the potential relationship between literary-critical study and the sustainability debate. Submissions should be between c. 2,500 and c. 3,000 words in length. Material submitted should seek to achieve the…
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Intensive Graduate Summer Course -The Reykjavik Academy, University of Akureyri, and Mid Sweden University
Announcing a unique graduate course in integrated environmental humanities to take place in northern Iceland 1-15 August 2014. The Svartarkot intensive graduate summer course (10 ECTS) is co-organized by The Reykjavik Academy, University of Akureyri, and Mid Sweden University, in close cooperation with NABO (The North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation), NIES (The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies) and GHEA (The…
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ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin
ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Day 1: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) and Dr Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick) Day 2: Mark Cocker and Professor Anne Milne (Toronto) How does one define a system? Be it an ecosystem, world-system, literary system, colonial system, the term itself,…
