Tag: EASLCE
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Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis
Call for Proposals: Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled “Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis,” that will treat cultural production and practices related to “alternatives”—both critical and creative, descriptive and imaginative—that challenge the unjust and unsustainable systems that dominate at present.…
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Green Letters 21(1) – Modern warfare and the environment
Green Letters 21(1) Modern warfare and the environment A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath those clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile…
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Call for Papers; Energy Use and the Humanities
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2016 Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue will include papers that explore the intersection of the various Humanities disciplines, with the production and consumption of energy sources, such as petroleum, natural gas, nuclear energy, solar and wind power, and coal (this is only a partial list and papers that explore…
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Call for Papers: International Conference on Ecopoetics
Call for Papers: International Conference on Ecopoetics “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth” http://ecopoeticsperpignan.com/call-for-papersappel-a-communications/ Under the aegis of the CRESEM University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France June 22nd-25th 2016 Guest Writers Linda Hogan Other writers to be confirmed Confirmed Keynote Speakers Joni Adamson, Arizona State University François Gavillon, Université de Brest Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Université…
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Webinar Spring 2015 The Dark Pastoral
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2015 May 21st at 7pm CEST With Prof. Heather I. Sullivan The Dark Pastoral CONTEXT: As a trope, the “dark pastoral” engages the controversy in ecocriticism and environmentalism about which cultural forms are most productive for re-imagining the human and non-human interactions in the Anthropocene during what appears to be the Earth’s sixth…
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DAAD German Studies Seminar 2015
DAAD German Studies Seminar 2015 Nature in Thought and Image: The Ecological Imagination from Romanticism to the Present University of Chicago July1-August 12, 2015 David E. Wellbery LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought University of Chicago The atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen (Max Planck Institut für…
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS. APRIL 1, 2015. Conventional deployments of the term “sustainability” emphasize “avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources,” as the Oxford English Dictionary defines this word. However, the emergent idea of “comprehensive sustainability” considers the so-called natural environment and human politics in equal measure…
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CFP: Underwater Worlds
CFP: Underwater Worlds: Aquatic Visions in Art, Science and Literature, University of Oxford, 15-16 September 2015. What lies beneath the surface of the water? From sirens and sea monsters to shipwrecks and the drowned city of Atlantis, the unseen depths of oceans, lakes and rivers have formed the canvas for countless imaginative visions and stories.…
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Call for Book Chapters: Ecofeminist Intersections
When d’Eaubonne coined the word “ecofeminism” in 1974, related ideas were already being discussed in a range of social sciences and humanities. Within anthropology Ortner (1974) argued that the universal devaluation of women relative to men could be explained by assuming that women are seen as being closer to nature than men, while men are seen as being more…
