Tag: CFP
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CFP: European Conference on the Fantastic, with the theme ‘Fantastic Spaces and Places’
Fantastic Spaces and Places The second European Conference on the FantasticKarlstad, Sweden15-17 June, 2027 Keynote Speakers Jerry Määttä, Stockholm University Jerry Määttä is Associate Professor in Literature and lecturer in History and Cultural Studies at Stockholm University. A recurring focus of his work is the ways in which popular literature and other cultural forms imagine…
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Call for Essay Proposal: Essay on Water and Myth in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch
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…
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Call for Chapter Contributions: The Clash of Culture and Environmentalism in Irish Ecocritical Studies
Editor: Dr. Niamh Donnellan Publisher: Vernon Press This edited collection explores the influence culture has on attitudes towards environmentalism in Ireland. It demonstrates that working with indigenous peoples who have deep-seated relationships built with their landscapes offers nuanced interventions that can connect communities with place, promoting environmental awareness. This form of ecological intervention can provide opportunities for…
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CFP: ‘Ecopoetry: Compared Perspectives from Anglophone and Francophone Literatures’
Date: Friday, October 30th, 2026 Location: Paris 8 University, Maison de la recherche, Amphitheatre MR002 Traditions of ecological and nature writing and poetry about place and the nonhuman vary widely between different countries, cultures, and literary traditions. In the same way, the representation of nature and of relationships between humans and nonhumans in British and French poetry,…
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CFP;Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology
Français Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact | Glendon College, York University | October 15-16, 2026 The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical…
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CFP: RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Call for Papers RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE 8th Research Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 10-11 December 2026 Supported by the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Bonn Over the past decades, the concept of resilience has become ever more prominent in environmental…
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CFP: Speculative Cityscapes: A Speculative Cultures Workshop
Cities are sites of crises. With climate disasters, democracy collapses, (neo) colonial and capitalist violence, cities become hubs where the full force of lives in crisis collide: from population density, precarious living conditions, and economic inequalities to toxicity, political movements, and the exploitation of nature to sustain life in the city, disparities become more visible within…
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Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)
University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence…
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CFP: Precarious Houses by the Water
University of Augsburg | March 3-5, 2027 Rising water levels in oceans and rivers, streams with high flood waves, and torrential rains that turn puddles into lakes: houses that are currently exposed to such increasingly regular water events are becoming a problematic, if not catastrophic, environment. The protective function that the house is supposed to…
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CFP – Speculative Climates: Hauntings of the Past Across the Humanities
Speculative Climates: Hauntings of the Past Across the Humanities International Doctoral Workshop funded by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of colonialism, (neo)capitalism, and the climate crisis is imagined in the Humanities through Gothic hauntings.…
