Report on the 25th EASLCE Webinar – “Nuclear Colonialism” (Dr. Jessica Hurley, George Mason University, USA) 24 September 2024, 4-5:30 pm (CEST) Participants: Shreedhar Prasad Adhikari (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)Marie Beckmann (University of Würzburg, Germany)Ilona Jurkonytė (University of Toronto, Canada)Kiley Kost (Carleton College, USA)Chang Liu (Heidelberg University, Germany)Tom Nurmi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)Katarzyna…
EASLCE 25th Webinar: Nuclear Colonialism and Environmental Humanities -Jessica Hurley Associate Professor of English, George Mason University, USA September 24, 4-5:30 pm CEST. REGISTER This seminar explores the intersection of nuclear criticism and the environmental humanities, with a specific focus on nuclear colonialism as a mode of environmental occupation. We will read some classic and…
7 June 2024, 4 pm CEST, 10 am Eastern Time in the US (ET), 3 pm in the UK, 7pm in India Standard Time Ecozon@: Ask the Editors Participants: The 24th EASCLE Webinar premiered a new format. In this session on Ecozon@: Ask the Editors, editor in chief, Carmen Flys-Junquera, and assistant editor, Heather Sullivan,…
Călina-Maria Moldovan, PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize. A jury consisting of members of the EASLCE Advisory Board decided to award the prize to Călina-Maria for her article “The Ocean in Contemporary Norwegian Literature”. The article does, according to the jury, not only “comply with the…
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…
“Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature (Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos, University of Oviedo, Spain) 20 April 2023, 4-6 pm (CEST) Participants: The 22nd EASLCE webinar brought us closer to the various facets of environmental justice both as a social movement and as a concern of narrative texts. The group began by taking a look…
Time and Date: 20 April 2023, 16:00 CEST / UTC+2; Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos (University of Oviedo; GIECO-Instituto Franklin-UAH) The environmental crisis (from pollution and toxicity to the effects of climate change—and everything in between) does not affect every place and everyone (thinking of all life forms, human and otherwise) equally. Environmental justice, as an…
Host: Dr. Ursula Kluwick (Bern, Switzerland) On December 1st, 2022, the 20th EASCLE Webinar took place, hosted by Dr. Ursula Kluwick University of Bern) in two installments, focusing on the topic of “The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea.” An international group of scholars came together, eager to discuss various facets of the Blue…
EASLCE Webinar The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea Time and Date: 1 December 2022, 10.30-12.00 (CET); Dr Ursula Kluwick, University of Bern, Switzerland This seminar addresses shifts in perspective provoked by recent developments in the blue humanities. Interest in water began to emerge in the first decade of the 2000s, in the form…