Tag: EASLCE
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Report on the 27th EASLCE Webinar – Discover the Popsicule: How Pop Culture Shapes the Meanings of Science and the Environment (Crys Clitheroe, Anna-Sophie Jürgens, The Australian National University, Australia)
Thursday April 9th, 9:00-10:30 am CEST The focus of this webinar, which once again brought together an international and interdisciplinary group of participants, was led by Crys Clitheroe and Anna-Sophie Jürgens, who offered insights into the research engagement work of the Popsicule, a Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub hosted by the Australian National…
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27th EASLCE Webinar: Discover the Popsicule: How Pop Culture Shapes the Meanings of Science and the Environment (Crys Clitheroe, AnnaSophie Jürgens)
April 9, 2026 | 9–10:30 am CEST Popular culture is one of the most powerful spaces where publics encounter science, form attitudes toward it and imagine what scientific, technological and environmental futures might look like. Film and comics, for example, reach global audiences and offer a narrative imagination lab where emerging technologies and environmental urgencies (and…
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First Seed Interview -Ecocritical Dialogues with José Manuel Marrero Henríquez
Primera Entrevista Semilla | Diálogos Eco críticos con José Manuel Marrero Henríquez “In this seminal interview, we converse with José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, writer and a renowned researcher on ecocriticism and philological-cultural studies. Here, we deepen our understanding of the relationship between nature, territory, literature, and memory, opening avenues to understand how ecocritical thinking assists…
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Reminder: Call for Submissions – EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism
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…
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Report on the 26th EASLCE Webinar- Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?
Friday May 30th, 2025: 16-17:30 Webinar: “Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?” Participants: Bojana Aćamović (Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)Camille Lavoix (University of Würzburg, Germany)Candice Allmark-Kent (Independent Scholar)Erik Frank (University of Würzburg, Germany)Fritz Bommas (University of Munich, Germany)Jacob Lee Tom (University of Stavanger, Norway)Julia Schlosser (California State University, USA)Marie Beckmann (University…
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Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice – 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference 2026
“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…
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Introducing the new EASLCE social media managers
EASLCE has two new social media representatives, Olena Tiaglova, Ph.D. student at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and Dr. Manon Raffard, in France, who have kindly stepped up to take over all the great work previously done by Stefano Rozzoni and Katie Ritson. Many thanks to both the previous and the new social media teams! Profiles Manon…
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Call for Submissions: EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism
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…
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Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner
Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…
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Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…
