“Join the Orca Uprising!” – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice 2026 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference Utrecht University, Netherlands 14–17 April, 2026 https://easlce2026.sites.uu.nl In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson describes the development and use of lethal pesticides and herbicides as the latest, deadliest, episode in what she calls “man’s war against nature.” Indeed, this war has a long…
The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists of a stipend of 500 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference (at the University of Urtecht, April 13-17 2026) and the opportunity…
ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…
ASLE & AESS IN 2023: PORTLAND, OREGON The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) are excited to announce that they will hold their next conference jointly in Portland, Oregon on July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. The theme of the conference…
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…
Programme “Réenchanter le Sauvage Urbain” / “Reenchanting Urban Wildness” Sous l’égide du CRESEM-UPVDPerpignan, Francedu 11 au 14 juin 2019 Colloque international en écopoétique et humanités environnementales
This international conference comes as an offshoot of a previous ecopoetics conference on “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth,” which took place in Perpignan in June 2016 (with three collective volumes on their way to being published).
CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia October 20-21, 2018 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan In this context, we would like to invite proposals that explore the question of war and peace and the environment in East Asia,…
The Guiding Question: [How can Ecology be Communicated through Culture?] The natural environment is not only the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth’s surface, the plants and animals around us, it is everything that makes up our surrounding and affects our ability to live on the earth. The environment is…