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EASLCE news
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5th EASLCE Webinar: Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
The 2014 webinar series will start off with a webinar hosted by Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg, Germany) on Literature and/as Cultural Ecology. This 5th EASLCE webinar takes place on February 27th at 4:00 pm (Central European Standard Time). In the webinar, Prof. Zapf will position the concept of “literature as cultural ecology”, which he has developed in some of his recent…
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AGM Minutes 2013
EASLCE General Membership Meeting 2013 Minutes Location: ASLE-UKI 2013 Conference Ecological Encounters: Agency, Identity, Interactions; University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom Date: Saturday, August 31st, 2013, 12:40-1:30 p.m. Attendees: Hannes Bergthaller (President), Juan Ignacio Oliva (Vice-President); Members: Axel Goodbody, Carmen Flys-Junquera, Paloma Villamil Agraso, Sieglinde Grimm, Peter Mortensen, Catrin Gersdorf, Isabel Hoving, Serenella Iovino, Maria Isabel Pérez Ramos, Terry Gifford,…
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Call for Papers: International Conference Encountering Australia: Transcultural Conversations (EASA)
European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA) Monash University’s Faculty of Arts is delighted to be hosting the 2014 international conference of the European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA) at the Monash Prato Centre in Italy. 24 – 26 September 2014, Monash Prato Centre, Italy artsonline.monash.edu.au/easa Call for Papers Where and how do we…
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4th EASLCE Webinar: Where is feminism in the environmental humanities?
September 28, 2013 – 4:00 PM Central European Standard Time 4th EASLCE Webinar: Where is feminism in the environmental humanities? Host: Prof. Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin Moderator: Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University TRANSCRIPT Where is feminism in the environmental humanities and sciences? Was Rachel Carson a scientist, a creative nonfiction writer, or the foremother…
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2014 EASLCE-NIES Joint Conference: Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning
2014 EASLCE-NIES Joint Conference “Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning” The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) Biennial Conference Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) IX. Conference Hosted by the Department of Semiotics University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia, 29 April–3 May 2014 “No meaning without a frame”…
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Rice University English Symposium: Ecology and the Environmental Humanities
Rice University English Symposium: Ecology and the Environmental Humanities Rice University, Houston, TX September 13-14, 2013 Keynotes: Prof. Claire Colebrook, PennState University Prof. Timothy Morton, Rice University* The 2013 English Symposium at Rice University invites responses to the ecological and nonhuman turns in the humanities. These turns are undoubtedly responses to environmental crises, food shortages, global warming, factory farming,…
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The Greening of Everyday Life: Reimagining Environmentalism in Postindustrial Societies
“The Greening of Everyday Life: Reimagining Environmentalism in Postindustrial Societies.” It is sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and will take place in Munich, 19-21 June 2014. Deadline for proposals is July 15, I welcome those of you considering submitting a proposal to Travel expenses for invited participants will be paid…
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Call For Papers: Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK) The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf (Bram Stoker, Dracula) Wolves lope across the gothic imagination. Signs of a…
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33 Scholarships – Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies
Call for Applications: 33 Scholarships for the Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS) Sep 23-Sep 28, 2013, at the University of Würzburg 1. Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies, Funded by VolkswagenStiftung In the Humanities and in Cultural Studies, animals have increasingly become the focus of interest in recent years. In its interdisciplinary…
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L’invention de la nature
L’invention de la nature : À la croisée des savoirs, des disciplines et des imaginaires Journée d’étude du 25 octobre 2013 – MISHA, Strasbourg Argumentaire Cette journée d’étude du programme MISHA « La nature à la lettre » vise à questionner les rapports entre savoirs et imaginaires de la nature sous l’angle de leur production, c’est-à-dire des…
