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.…
Public Lecture Competition: The 2014 INSPIRE Lecture on Literature and Sustainability Conditions of Entry GENERAL Entrants should submit the text of a half-hour public lecture that considers the potential relationship between literary-critical study and the sustainability debate. Submissions should be between c. 2,500 and c. 3,000 words in length. Material submitted should seek to achieve the…
ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Day 1: Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) and Dr Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick) Day 2: Mark Cocker and Professor Anne Milne (Toronto) How does one define a system? Be it an ecosystem, world-system, literary system, colonial system, the term itself,…