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EASLCE news
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Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner
Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…
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Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lü (eds.). “Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance”.
This Special Issue of Plant Perspectives explores the multifaceted relationships between scientific and artistic expressions and plants in various genres, from literature and art to dance and media. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume are linked by an exploration of the concept of ‘resonance’ as a potentially meaningful way of establishing and describing an ethical …
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Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…
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Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz
Michael Markwick’s works come after an invitation to an artist-in-residence program at the SilvrettAtelier Montafon in the Austrian Alps last summer. The exhibition will have eight works on display – some of which can already be seen on Michael’s website – and one piece will be added to the collection of the Vorarlberg Museum in…
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New EASLCE Bluesky account – Leaving X
Dear EASLCE members, The Advisory Board has debated whether to stay with X or leave for a different social network system. It has been decided that the best for EASLCE was to move to Bluesky, which has been adopted by many other academic associations such as ASLE and others. EASLCE Bluesky account: EASLCE.bsky.social How to…
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Arcadiana Blog Editor (3 open positions)(NOV 15th)
Blog Editor (3 open positions) The editors are responsible for running the Arcadiana blog. They are in charge of the blog’s direction, issuing general or themed calls for papers and contacting universities and PGR/ECR forums to invite contributions from a wide range of research areas. Tasks include: Workload: Co-editors will be responsible for monitoring the…
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Report on the 25th EASLCE Webinar – “Nuclear Colonialism”
Report on the 25th EASLCE Webinar – “Nuclear Colonialism” (Dr. Jessica Hurley, George Mason University, USA) 24 September 2024, 4-5:30 pm (CEST) Participants: Shreedhar Prasad Adhikari (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)Marie Beckmann (University of Würzburg, Germany)Ilona Jurkonytė (University of Toronto, Canada)Kiley Kost (Carleton College, USA)Chang Liu (Heidelberg University, Germany)Tom Nurmi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)Katarzyna…
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CFP: Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Green Letters invites papers of up to 6000 words in length for a special issue on Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities, guest-edited by John Miller (University of Sheffield), Christie Oliver-Hobley (University of Sheffield) and Peter Sands (University of York). It is widely asserted that a ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is underway (Sessa, 2012). After extensive research…
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EASLCE 25th Webinar: Nuclear Colonialism and Environmental Humanities – Jessica Hurley
EASLCE 25th Webinar: Nuclear Colonialism and Environmental Humanities -Jessica Hurley Associate Professor of English, George Mason University, USA September 24, 4-5:30 pm CEST. REGISTER This seminar explores the intersection of nuclear criticism and the environmental humanities, with a specific focus on nuclear colonialism as a mode of environmental occupation. We will read some classic and…
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ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…
