Tag: Anthropocene

  • Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

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    Intersectional 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…

    Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa

  • Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

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    What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,…

    Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

  • Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz

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    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…

    Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 – With Michael Markwick – Künstlerhaus Bregenz

  • CFP – Erosion -Creimeadh – ASLE: UKICFP Biennial Conference – University of Galway

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    Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference – University of Galway, 9th (online), 12-14th August 2025 The 2025 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the University of Galway, Ireland. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested…

    CFP – Erosion -Creimeadh – ASLE: UKICFP Biennial Conference – University of Galway

  • CFP-Coloquio internacional – Ruinas y desechos en la era del Antropoceno :un acercamiento ecocrítico a las literaturas hispánicas

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    Coloquio internacional Ruinas y desechos en la era del Antropoceno :un acercamiento ecocrítico a las literaturas hispánicas 20-21 de febrero de 2025 El programa científico del coloquio se concibe desde el campo teórico de la ecocrítica y ecopoética, pero desde un ángulo menos estudiado o, por lo menos, más reciente de la ecocrítica : el…

    CFP-Coloquio internacional – Ruinas y desechos en la era del Antropoceno :un acercamiento ecocrítico a las literaturas hispánicas

  • Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann

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    Published by West Virginia University Press in 2023, Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how…

    Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann

  • Ph.d. course: LIT606 Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment

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    The University of Agder and the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) invite applications for the PhD course “Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment”, taking place in Kristiansand, Norway, on 13-16 June 2023. Detailed information on the course contents and the registration form can be found at https://www.uia.no/en/events/ph.d.-course-lit606-ecocritical-theory-literature-culture-and-environment . The course will provide insights into…

    Ph.d. course: LIT606 Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment

  • Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino

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    Are chickens going extinct? What is it like to be a white gorilla in Barcelona’s zoo? How threatening can be an ant? And how endangered are humans, in the industrial and capitalist biosphere? Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino (Cambridge UP) explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino’s…

    Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino

  • Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacements, October 6-8, 2021 

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    Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacements, October 6-8, 2021  “We live in an era of unprecedented mobility: movement of ideas, goods, money and, increasingly, of people,” opens a 2017 UN report on emerging issues of environmental concern. While mobility and migration can be significant drivers of development and progress, offering opportunities to individuals and families, as…

    Virtual Workshop: (Narrating) Environmental Displacements, October 6-8, 2021 

  • EASLCE 18th Webinar: Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges

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    EASLCE 18th Webinar Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges Dr Adeline Johns-Putra, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China & University of Hong Kong Time and Date: 16 April 2021 – 11am CET (Central European Time) This webinar is concerned with the capacity of literary realism to address the representational and ethical dilemmas of the Anthropocene:…

    EASLCE 18th Webinar: Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Representational and Ethical Challenges