Tag: Climate Change
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CFP: Environmental Change in Nordic Fiction
Third Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies In the current climate of a global ecological crisis, visions and representations of the Nordic environment are undergoing a swift change. Traditionally, imagery of the Nordic and Arctic areas has been heavily influenced by the national Romantic ideas of purity and pristine wilderness, which still inform…
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Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in a Global Context
Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in a Global Context Thursday, March 14th at 4:30 pm EST The event is co-hosted by Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP). The goal of this event is to engage the Haudenosaunee Great Law of…
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Cli-Fi A Companion – Axel Goodbody – Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.) Cli-Fi A Companion
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement.…
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CFP:Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment?
Title : Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment? A paradigm shift at the turn of our century. CFP American transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson are traditionally considered as the forefathers of nature writing. Authors – of fiction and other literary forms – have kept on writing about nature, whose definition is…
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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…
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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…
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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)
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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…
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Bifrost Online – Paris Agreement
Bifrost Online’s inaugural blog looks back, and forward, at the meaning of the Paris Agreement.”
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Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel Astrid Bracke
The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction.
