Tag: CFP
-
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…
-
Waters Rising- CFP special issue of Green Letters on floods
Waters Rising Call for contributions to a special issue of Green Letters on floods in the literary imagination of environmental crisis With a tradition dating back at least to the epics (e.g. Gilgamesh and Noah’s Ark), stories of floods have long been literary metaphors of great rhetorical power and familiar imagery; water can be a…
-
CFP: Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction
Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction An International Conference organised by CECILLE (Centre d’Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) 7-9 November 2019 Université de Lille SHS, France Convened by: Thomas Dutoit (CECILLE), Sarah Jonckheere (CECILLE/IdA), and Laura Lainväe (EMMA) Keynote speakers: Sarah Wood, co-editor and advisory board of OLR and Angelaki, UK Jesse Oak…
-
CFP: Paradise on Fire- ASLE Thirteenth Biennial Conference
This year the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is experimenting with a two-part submission process intended to make the conference more participant-driven and democratic. The second step is this Call for PAPERS. Proposals must be submitted by December 15, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.
-
CFP – Reading and Writing the World: Perception and Identity in the Era of Climate Change
An International Conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) in collaboration with CECILLE (Centre d’Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères)
-
CFP – “The Desert and the USA”
International transdisciplinary symposium organized by HCTI (EA 4249) November 21-23, 2019 at the Université Bretagne Sud in Lorient, South Brittany, France.
-
Nature Writing’s Future Pasts – Land Lines Conference CFP
Nature Writing’s Future Pasts – Land Lines Conference CFP British nature writing can be understood as both a product of and a challenge to a western-style modernity that has created the conditions for its own unravelling. The tense that best captures these conditions is the future anterior. Scottish writer Kathleen Jamie, wandering through Bergen’s Natural…
-
CFP: Remembering Voices Lost
The (re)emergence of populism(s), the increase in hate speech, and the resurgence of ethnic and religious violence and xenophobia—in what Pankaj Mishra has called “the age of anger”—all evince a complex web of relations and gestures toward the Other, which call the project of modernity into question.
-
CFP: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices
We face an unparalleled historical situation of global multispecies suffering, variously known as the Anthropocene, or the New Climatic Regime, and signalled by alarming states of exposure and precarity in more-than-human worlds. The question of how to nurture liveable futures for ‘us’ – while also asking who and what might be included in this ‘us’…
-
CfP: Cultivating Sustainability – Education and the Environmental Humanities
What is now known as the environmental humanities has become a recognised and thriving field, and invaluable work that tackles the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and energy consumption is being done in areas such as ecocriticism, human-animal studies, and environmental history…
