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EASLCE news
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Report on the 23rd EASLCE Webinar -“Ecological Care”
(Dr. Joshua Trey Barnett, Pennsylvania State University, USA) 5 October 2023, 4-5:30 pm (CEST) Participants: In the 23rd EASCLE Webinar on Ecological Care, participants discussed various facets of ecological care as process and practice, using theoretical reflections by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Thom Van Dooren to zero in on the seeming paradox of…
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Arcadiana – Blog Editor (3 open positions)
Blog Editor (3 open positions) Arcadiana, a blog about the environment in literature and culture that is hosted by postgraduate members of EASLCE, has currently three open positions for blog editors. You can find more information on these positions and on how to apply at https://arcadiana.easlce.eu/get-involved/ and below in this email. It would be great if you…
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EASLCE 23rd Webinar Ecological Care – Joshua Trey Barnett
Ecological Care Joshua Trey Barnett, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA Date and Time: October 5, 2023, 4-5:30 pm CEST Description Ecological crises are often the result of carelessness. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, calls to care about and for more-than-human beings and ways of being, ecological communities, and the earth itself…
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Blue Humanities – Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls…
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The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies
The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling | 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam | Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023. Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream,…
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Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023)
Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023) Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes…
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Empirical Ecocriticism – Environmental Narratives for Social Change
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities…
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John Parham – Obituary
It is with deep sadness that we learn of the death of our friend and colleague John Parham. While most strongly involved in our sister organisation ASLE-UKI, John was also well-known and close to many EASLCE members and a frequent participant in our conferences. John was a highly esteemed ecocritical scholar and a very kind,…
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“Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature“ (Palgrave, 2023)
About this book This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles…
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Webinar Report of the 21st EASLCE Webinar: Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature
“Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature (Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos, University of Oviedo, Spain) 20 April 2023, 4-6 pm (CEST) Participants: The 22nd EASLCE webinar brought us closer to the various facets of environmental justice both as a social movement and as a concern of narrative texts. The group began by taking a look…
