Tag: Call for Papers
EASLCE Call for Papers
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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: Planet Ocean – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments – Extended July 14th
Deadline Extended JULY 14th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Contemporary Marine Environments Changing marine environments form a significant part of contemporary concerns around global warming. Rising sea-levels, microplastics, oil spills, and fishing practices are just some of the compounding environmental factors that scientific research attempts to tackle. Yet the sea is also an everyday space of both…
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CFP: Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature From the forests of the tales of the Brothers’ Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from Piglet’s house in Winnie the Pooh to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13 Story Treehouse series, trees have been enduring features of…
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CFP: Interconnections – Interconnexions Inaugural Issue
Call for Papers: Interconnections / Interconnexions Inaugural Issue We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism / Interconnexions: revue de posthumanisme. Our peer-reviewed, international, bilingual, open-access, interdisciplinary journal is devoted to theorizing what it means to think beyond both historical and current conceptions of ‘the human’ in ways that transcend…
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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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CFP: REWORKING GEORGIC
Call for Papers REWORKING GEORGIC University of Leeds Monday 9th – Tuesday 10th September 2019 Confirmed speakers: David Fairer (Leeds), Greg Garrard (British Columbia), Sue Edney (Bristol) Including a reading of poetry and prose with Simon Armitage, Helen Jukes, and Jack Thacker The influence and spirit of ‘georgic’, as a genre or mode – named…
