Tag: Anthropocene
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CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic
Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State will be running a “conference-style” podcast to feature intellectual, activist, artistic, or community work happening around the contemporary crisis of race, the environment, and the pandemic. We are looking for speakers to have a recorded conversation about the work they are…
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CFP; Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene
Special panel at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Swansea University, 2-4 September, 2020. Please note the extended deadline: 24 April, 2020 The environmental challenge to our collective existence is both more urgent, and more intractable, than ever before. As ‘global heating’ looks likely to surpass…
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CFP: Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene Special panel at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Swansea University, 2-4 September, 2020. Deadline: 3 April, 2020 The environmental challenge to our collective existence is both more urgent, and more intractable, than…
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CFP: International postgraduate workshop “Ecocriticism and Narrative Form”
International Postgraduate Workshop Ecocriticism and Narrative Form 9th to 10th December, 2019 Graduate Center for the Study of Culture Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany Organized by Oikos, GCSC Giessen, in cooperation with the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE). Guests: Prof. Erin James (University of Idaho) and Dr. Michael Basseler (GCSC)…
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CFP: Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability
CFP-Special issue of Humanities on Food Cultures and Critical Sustainability Dear Colleagues, In January 2019, the EAT-Lancet commission released a two-year study on “Food in the Anthropocene,” arguing that “civilization is in crisis,” and that the urgent need for both healthy diets and balanced planetary resources not come at the expense of accelerating trends which…
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CFP:Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment?
Title : Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment? A paradigm shift at the turn of our century. CFP American transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson are traditionally considered as the forefathers of nature writing. Authors – of fiction and other literary forms – have kept on writing about nature, whose definition is…
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CFP: TREES IN/AND/AROUND LITERATURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
TREES IN/AND/AROUND LITERATURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE University of Turin, Italy 21st May 2019 “I’m interested in the particularity of each Tree – it’s ‘thisness’ (haecceitas)”, claims Canadian land-artist, photographer, and poet Marlene Creates, thus hinting both at the specificity of each singular tree and at the uniqueness of certain species at different latitudes. Literature, among…
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Call for Panels – Paradise on Fire: ASLE Thirteenth Biennial Conference
The Biennial ASLE Conference “Paradise on Fire” explores the connections among storytelling, real and imagined landscapes, future-making, activism, environed spaces, differential exclusions, long histories, and the disaster-prone terrains of the Anthropocene.
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Voices from the Anthropocene: Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino
Environmental Humanities Voices from the Anthropocene Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a time when the narrative and theoretical…
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ANTHROPOSCENERIES: ECOLOGIES, LANDSCAPES, AND STORIES
Università degli Studi di Torino May 30-31, 2017 The Anthropocene is the epoch in which humanity has become a geological force. Never before had our activities affected planetary cycles on such a scale, influencing climate, biodiversity, and landscapes. The impact on society is huge, with extraordinary migration flows involving people and things, natures and cultures.…
