EASLCE Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Humanities and Fine Arts Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Abstract deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015 Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively altering the ecosystems of the earth. Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen claims that…
12th Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference Universidad Complutense, Madrid, March 25-27, 2015. “American Communities in a Global World: Challenges for the New Millennium” Panel Title: “A Sense of Place in the Literary Mapping of the Changing US South” Panel Chairs: Inés Casas Maroto, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Christian Hummelsund Voie, Mid…
Call for Papers Postgraduate Workshop: “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities” 10-11 October 2014, Munich, Germany The development of modern environmental thought and environmental discourses is inextricably intertwined with the historical expansion of colonialism and imperialism. European colonial occupation and settlement of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas depended on the notion that…
Call for papers: Nature strikes back! Genres of revenge in the anthropocene – extension of submission deadline Special issue of “Australian Humanities Review”, due for publication 2014 Edited by Dr Catherine Simpson and Dr Nicole Matthews 300 word abstracts should be sent to [email protected] with the subject line ?Nature Strikes Back? by Feb 14, 2014.…
ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Day 1: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) and Dr Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick) Day 2: Mark Cocker and Professor Anne Milne (Toronto) How does one define a system? Be it an ecosystem, world-system, literary system, colonial system, the term itself,…
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK) The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf (Bram Stoker, Dracula) Wolves lope across the gothic imagination. Signs of a…
Call for Papers Literatur und Ökologie. Neue literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven XVI. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (DGAVL) Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 10.-13. Juni 2014 Organisation: Prof. Dr. Christiane Solte-Gresser, Dr. Claudia Schmitt Ökologie ist während der letzten Jahrzehnte in der westlichen Welt unverkennbar zu einem Leitdiskurs avanciert. Insofern es gegenwärtig…