Category: Newsletter
EASLCE Quarterly Newsletters
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Join the Orca Uprising: 11th Biennial Conference of EASLCE at Utrecht University, 14-17 April, 2026
The 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice[/caption]Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment took place at Utrecht University from 14–17 April 2026 under the theme “Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice.” Hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, this was the…
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Special Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology — Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 41.1
News, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 21.1 Summer 2026, Literature and the Arts, Newsletter, PoetrySpecial Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Volume 41, Number 1 Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature announces the upcoming publication of Volume 41, Number 1, a special issue devoted to Italian Poetry & Ecology, edited by Jessica Beasley, Gabriele Belletti, and Silvia Valisa. The issue…
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Dancing Bodies of Water: A Multimedia Research Creation Project Involving Dance, Video, Photography and Writing
directed by Béné Meillon, Université d’Angers, France Dancing Bodies of Water is a research-creation project associated with the Sea More Blue interdisciplinary ecopoetic research group based at Université d’Angers, France, and working on Oceanic and aquatic imaginaries, perception, and representations. The project was achieved over a period of two years and a half and involved…
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Call for Chapter Contributions: The Clash of Culture and Environmentalism in Irish Ecocritical Studies
Editor: Dr. Niamh Donnellan Publisher: Vernon Press This edited collection explores the influence culture has on attitudes towards environmentalism in Ireland. It demonstrates that working with indigenous peoples who have deep-seated relationships built with their landscapes offers nuanced interventions that can connect communities with place, promoting environmental awareness. This form of ecological intervention can provide opportunities for…
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Panpsychismus im Nachhaltigkeitsdenken. Eine metaethische Reflexion by Madeleine Hugai
News, Books, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 21.1 Summer 2026, Ecocriticism PublicationsWhat does sustainability mean when nature is understood not merely as a resource but as a bearer of subjectivity? What underlying assumptions shape our current thinking about sustainability, and where are its limits? Madeleine Hugai demonstrates that prevailing concepts are heavily human-centered and thus overlook important aspects. As an alternative, she develops an expanded concept…
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Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert
News, Books, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 21.1 Summer 2026, Ecocriticism PublicationsExamining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring…
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4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities – Cappadocia University
4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities Cappadocia University, May 20-23, 2026 The 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference invites scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners to contribute to ongoing conversations that chart the multiple currents of water-centered thinking. We welcome proposals that examine the oceanic and the aquatic through literary, historical, cultural, philosophical, artistic, and ecological…
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Sea More Blue, Ecozon@, Vol 17.1, eds Béné Meillon, Bertrands Guest and Marie-Pierre Ramouche
This trilingual volume of Ecozon@ has emerged from the Sea More Blue EASLCE conference held in Perpignan in June 2024. It gathers papers that cross perspectives coming from different cultures, places, disciplines, and that are expressed via various forms of art and discourse. It is part of a larger effort to promote of a blue, interdisciplinary take…
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Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art by Francesca Baroni
Water, besides being a central element of the environmental crisis, plays a profoundly symbolic and political role within contemporary societies. It is at the heart of numerous social struggles, embodying the demands of environmentalists, trade unions, and workers who oppose its privatization.
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Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa
News, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 21.1 Summer 2026, Ecocriticism PublicationsIntersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025; Ralahine Utopian Studies series) offers one of the first sustained analyses of climate fiction through an intersectional ecocritical framework. What happens when the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is challenged from a feminist and decolonial perspective? How can speculative fiction reimagine environmental futures…
