The editors of a volume under contract with Routledge’s Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series are seeking a 7,000-word essay on Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch. The volume focuses on rewritten water myths in English and situates itself in current debates in the blue and environmental humanities. It grows out of an international conference on the topic that the editors…
Call for Papers THE BLUE HUMANITIES Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye) May 20-23, 2026 Confirmed Keynote Speakers 2 more keynote speakers to be announced The Blue Humanities is a “current of thought” that challenges terracentric modes of knowing and envisions new ways of living with planetary waters in an era of ecological uncertainty.…
EASLCE Webinar The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea Time and Date: 1 December 2022, 10.30-12.00 (CET); Dr Ursula Kluwick, University of Bern, Switzerland This seminar addresses shifts in perspective provoked by recent developments in the blue humanities. Interest in water began to emerge in the first decade of the 2000s, in the form…