Tag: Climate Change
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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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Arcadiana – Blog Editor (3 open positions)
Blog Editor (3 open positions) Arcadiana, a blog about the environment in literature and culture that is hosted by postgraduate members of EASLCE, has currently three open positions for blog editors. You can find more information on these positions and on how to apply at https://arcadiana.easlce.eu/get-involved/ and below in this email. It would be great if you…
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Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities
Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities is a bilingual, interdisciplinary volume which proposes alternatives to the myth of human exceptionalism and suggests overcoming the so-called Anthropocene while imagining just futures. This collection of essays offers critical reflections in different areas: philosophy, politics, literary analysis, artistic practice, and pedagogy. It tackles issues such as the cultural consequences…
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CFP; Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse
Call for proposals Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse Conference Stockholm University (on location and online) 29.04.2021 Deadline for proposals submission: 15.01.2021 Notification of acceptance: 01.02.2021 In the past few years, discourses on collapse have been more and more visible in the public space, as if it was too late to address the major…
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CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic
Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic The Liberal Arts Collective at Penn State will be running a “conference-style” podcast to feature intellectual, activist, artistic, or community work happening around the contemporary crisis of race, the environment, and the pandemic. We are looking for speakers to have a recorded conversation about the work they are…
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Approaches to Climate Change in Environmental Humanities: PhD Course
PhD Course, University of Bergen,August 30–September 4, 2020 5 ECTS credits Language: English The course will be held digitally if the corona situation does not allow physical presence in Bergen. Can the humanities contribute productively to the inter-disciplinary field of climate change research? Some of the humanistic contributions to this field have focused on how…
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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: Climate change temporalities: Narratives, representations and practices
Call for papers/ Climate change temporalities: Narratives, representations and practices A conference on humanistic approaches to climate change University of Bergen, Norway, 5-7 August 2020. When we think about climate change, what first springs to mind is probably carbon emissions, extreme weather, draughts, floods, and melting icebergs. But climate change is just as much about…
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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: 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…
