Category: Students
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ASLE Twelfth Biennial Conference – Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Twelfth Biennial Conference, June 20 – 24, 2017 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu Eve: So this is your wilderness. Detroit. Adam: Everybody left. Eve: What’s that? Adam: It’s the Packard plant, where they once built the most beautiful cars in the…
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EASLCE Essay Prize in European Ecocriticism
EASLCE Essay Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists in a grant of 400 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference…
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EASLCE Webinar: Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard
Understanding Climate Scepticism with Dr. Greg Garrard Thursday, 26 May 2016; 19:00 CET Understanding Climate Scepticism: Environmental Communication Meets Ecocriticism Context Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. But in this webinar we ask: who do they think they are? What kinds of selves do sceptical texts project?…
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EASLCE/ BASCE: 7th Biennial Conference “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability
“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016) Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in association with the Benelux Association for the…
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CFP: Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference
Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference Grumello del Monte (BG) – June 6 / 8, 2016 The Centro Studi Città e Territorio, in collaboration with the municipality of Grumello del Monte (BG – Italy), presents “Landscapes of Wine in Italian Literature and Cinema”, an international interdiciplinary conference. The conference will be…
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CFP Internationales Symposium Texte, Tiere, Umwelten. Zoopoetik und Umweltpoetik
Internationales Symposium Texte, Tiere, Umwelten. Zoopoetik und Umweltpoetik 12.-14.10.2016 Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover Gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung -Please find English version below- Keynotes: Kári Driscoll (Utrecht), Susan McHugh (Maine, USA) Aaron Moe (Notre Dame, USA), Kate Rigby (Melbourne, Australien) CfP – Projektpräsentationen Die Cultural and Literary Animal Studies formieren sich derzeit als interdisziplinäres akademisches Forschungsfeld auf…
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EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016 With Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Friday, March 4, 2016 (10 am CET) (Please register by February 22, 2016) Social Systems Theory and the Environmental Humanities Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, elaborated in a vast archipelago of texts between the 1970s and his death in 1998, remains one…
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ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
ASLE-UKI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 31ST August – 2nd September 2016 A change of (s)cene: reviewing our place in a new geological epoch ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland – www.asle.org.uk) invites proposals for its Postgraduate Conference to be held from 31st August – 2nd September 2016 at the University…
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CFP: International Conference -The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry
International Conference The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry University of Bamberg, Germany, November 25-26, 2016 The environmental crisis and intensifying migration movements are among the greatest challenges of our time, yet they are only beginning to be understood as interrelated. So far, this junction has mainly been studied in the social…
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CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language
CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language 23-25 June 2016 This conference is co-organized by the English Department of the University of Geneva and by the Dirt Foundation. Please see our website for more information and for submitting your abstract: http://encounteringmateriality.org/conference/ Description What is materiality? As contemporary societies meet philosophical and earthly limits, we are being confronted…
