Tag: EASLCE
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CFP: International postgraduate workshop “Ecocriticism and Narrative Form”
International Postgraduate Workshop Ecocriticism and Narrative Form 9th to 10th December, 2019 Graduate Center for the Study of Culture Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany Organized by Oikos, GCSC Giessen, in cooperation with the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE). Guests: Prof. Erin James (University of Idaho) and Dr. Michael Basseler (GCSC)…
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Changing Climate and Human Bioturbation by Serpil Oppermann
In the BifrostOnline guest blog environmental humanities scholar Serpil Oppermann looks at fiction of human bioturbation and unpacks what we are beginning to understand about the risks involved in changing subterranean environments as we extract resources ever more aggressively.
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Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) in cooperation with the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, is launching an electronic multi/interdisciplinary open access, refereed journal with the title Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone…
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CFP: Energy, Ecology, and the Culture of Cities
International Symposium at National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan November 23-24, 2018 There is a long tradition conceiving of the city as a kind of parasite – the seat of powerful elites which, as geographer Guy Brechin has argued with respect to San Francisco, syphon food, raw materials, and labor from the “contado,” as medieval Italians…
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Italy and the Environmental Humanities -Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy–as a territory of both matter and imagination–through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of…
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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to…
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L’Esprit Créateur – Daniel A. Finch-Race/Julien Weber (eds)
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Julien Weber (eds) L’Esprit Créateur Volume 57, Issue 1 (2017) – French Ecocriticism/L’écocritique française The latest issue of the journal L’Esprit Créateur contains 10 essays that seek to broaden the horizons of the environmental humanities. The first issue of Volume 57, guest-edited by Daniel A. Finch-Race and Julien Weber, is now available online via…
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Call for Applications-Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature
Call for Applications 5th Annual Workshop of the Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature 9-10th November 2017 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy “Labour deserves the critical attention of green thinkers because it is both integral to the functioning and reproduction of our environmentally rapacious economy, and…
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Webinar Spring 2017 – Dr. Simon C. Estok – The Ecophobia Hypothesis
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2017With Dr. Simon C. EstokThe Ecophobia Hypothesis Saturday, May 20, 2017, 14:00 pm EU time Context: In The Biophilia Hypothesis, a book E.O. Wilson co-edited, Stephen Kellert explains that “the dominionistic experience of nature reflects a desire to master the natural world” (56). This “proficiency to subdue, the capacity to dominate, and…
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The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community- 8th Biennial EASLCE Conference
Arguably one of the most alluring environmental images, the garden enjoys a poetic, aesthetic, and mythological presence across many cultures and throughout all ages…
