Tag: Call for Papers
EASLCE Call for Papers
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Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” University of Graz,Austria
Call for Papers – “Literature and the Environment” International Conference to be held at the University of Graz, Austria, 8-10 June 2017 The aim of this conference is to underline the specific relevance of literature and of literary studies for environmental and ecological concerns. As literature has addressed environmental issues in the past decades, and…
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CFP: Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference
Landscapes of Wine in Literature and Cinema Conference International Conference Grumello del Monte (BG) – June 6 / 8, 2016 The Centro Studi Città e Territorio, in collaboration with the municipality of Grumello del Monte (BG – Italy), presents “Landscapes of Wine in Italian Literature and Cinema”, an international interdiciplinary conference. The conference will be…
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CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language
CFP: Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language 23-25 June 2016 This conference is co-organized by the English Department of the University of Geneva and by the Dirt Foundation. Please see our website for more information and for submitting your abstract: http://encounteringmateriality.org/conference/ Description What is materiality? As contemporary societies meet philosophical and earthly limits, we are being confronted…
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Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis
Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled “Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis,” that will treat cultural production and practices related to “alternatives”—both critical and creative, descriptive and imaginative—that challenge the unjust and unsustainable systems that dominate at present.…
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Green Letters 21(1) – Modern warfare and the environment
Green Letters 21(1) Modern warfare and the environment A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath those clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile…
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ENVIRONMENTAL UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS AS FORMS OF RESISTANCE, OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION
Dear all, We would like to notify that due to people’s demands we will extend the deadline for applications (of short bio and cover letter — and preferred presentation format: paper, chapter or poster) until the end of the month (July 31). Find the CFP attached. Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Workshop 2015, KTH…
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS. APRIL 1, 2015. Conventional deployments of the term “sustainability” emphasize “avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources,” as the Oxford English Dictionary defines this word. However, the emergent idea of “comprehensive sustainability” considers the so-called natural environment and human politics in equal measure…
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CFP: Underwater Worlds
CFP: Underwater Worlds: Aquatic Visions in Art, Science and Literature, University of Oxford, 15-16 September 2015. What lies beneath the surface of the water? From sirens and sea monsters to shipwrecks and the drowned city of Atlantis, the unseen depths of oceans, lakes and rivers have formed the canvas for countless imaginative visions and stories.…
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Call for Book Chapters: Ecofeminist Intersections
When d’Eaubonne coined the word “ecofeminism” in 1974, related ideas were already being discussed in a range of social sciences and humanities. Within anthropology Ortner (1974) argued that the universal devaluation of women relative to men could be explained by assuming that women are seen as being closer to nature than men, while men are seen as being more…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Green Letters 20(1)
‘Pastoral: Past, Present, Future’ Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism is the journal of ASLE-UKI (the UK-Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). It is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis and supported by Bath Spa University and the University of Worcester. Green Letters explores interdisciplinary interfaces between…
