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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…
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Call for Papers: Ecocriticism and Globalization
Call for Papers Workshop “Ecocriticism and Globalization” June 21-22, 2013, Frankfurt a. M. More information: http://docforumelc.wordpress.com/ Contact us: [email protected] [gview file=”http://www.easlce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/EGLO_CfP.pdf” profile=”3″ height=”200px” width=”500px” save=”1″] The first ELC workshop thematically focuses on “ecocriticism and globalization”. In a panel discussion and a reading session we want to explore the ways in which disciplinary paradigms of ‘ecocriticism’…
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Call for Papers- Literatur und Ökologie
Call for Papers Literatur und Ökologie. Neue literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven XVI. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (DGAVL) Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 10.-13. Juni 2014 Organisation: Prof. Dr. Christiane Solte-Gresser, Dr. Claudia Schmitt Ökologie ist während der letzten Jahrzehnte in der westlichen Welt unverkennbar zu einem Leitdiskurs avanciert. Insofern es gegenwärtig…
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3rd EASLCE Webinar: Embodied Narratives: Theory and Practice of Material Ecocriticism
3rd EASLCE Webinar “Embodied Narratives: Theory and Practice of Material Ecocriticism” Date and Time: February 22nd 10:00am Central European Time (GMT+1) Host: Serenella Iovino Moderator: Hannes Bergthaller Inspired by recent research in physical and social sciences, the new materialist paradigm proposes to see matter in terms of its agentic capacity and meanings. Matter, as Karen Barad posits…
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CFP: From Instants to Eons: Time in Environment and Environmental History
From Instants to Eons: Time in Environment and Environmental History Tallinn, March 25-26, 2013 International Conference organized by the Centre for Environmental History in Estonia (KAJAK) Environment and environmental history feature countless diverse and often hardly reconcilable time scales. While “time” is probably one of the least questioned concepts in experimental science, being the basis of…
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