EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stacy Alaimo February 11, 2015 (7 pm CET) “Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects.” Context: As Humanities scholars grapple with the idea of the anthropocene, one of the key questions may be how to conceive of the “anthropos.” Does the anthropocene demand the reconceptualization of the human as a concept, species, geological force,…
‘Pastoral: Past, Present, Future’ Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism is the journal of ASLE-UKI (the UK-Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). It is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis and supported by Bath Spa University and the University of Worcester. Green Letters explores interdisciplinary interfaces between…
EASLCE Webinar With Dr. Stephanie Le Menager, University of Oregon December 13, 2014 (7 pm CET) The Cultures of Energy Context: The “cultures of energy” describes a branch of the environmental humanities that draws upon energy politics, the experiential and political dimensions of climate change (thus, aesthetics and affect), and the geologic turn associated with…
Call for Papers Postgraduate Workshop: “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities” 10-11 October 2014, Munich, Germany The development of modern environmental thought and environmental discourses is inextricably intertwined with the historical expansion of colonialism and imperialism. European colonial occupation and settlement of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas depended on the notion that…
ECOZON@. EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR LITERATURE, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: CREATIVE WRITING AND ARTS EDITOR RESPONSIBILITIES: The holder of the position will be responsible for the Creative Writing and Visual Arts section of the journal. N.B. This position is unpaid, as are the other positions on the Ecozon@ Editorial Board. They will…
Journal of Literary Theory Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015) Cultural and Literary Animal Studies Guest Editor: Roland Borgards (University of Würzburg, Germany) In recent years, animal studies have become established as an important interdisciplinary field of research. Cultural and literary studies, too, have dealt in a new way with the discourse on animals and the…
Please join us for “The Anthroposcene: Artists and Writers in Critical Dialogue with Nature and Ecosystems” 17-18 June 2014 at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University in Canberra. The pre-conference workshop will be held in conjunction with our biennial conference, this year on the theme “Affective Habitus,” 19-21 June, also at ANU. An…
Workshop & Conference Imagining »Earth« Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ 29.-31.05.2014 Zukunftsakademie NRW, Humboldtstr. 40; 44787 Bochum (Germany) Web: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/imagining-earth Contact: Solvejg Nitzke [email protected] Title: Imagining Earth. Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance.…
Call for papers: Nature strikes back! Genres of revenge in the anthropocene – extension of submission deadline Special issue of “Australian Humanities Review”, due for publication 2014 Edited by Dr Catherine Simpson and Dr Nicole Matthews 300 word abstracts should be sent to [email protected] with the subject line ?Nature Strikes Back? by Feb 14, 2014.…