Tag: Ecocriticism
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EASLCE 23rd Webinar Ecological Care – Joshua Trey Barnett
Ecological Care Joshua Trey Barnett, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA Date and Time: October 5, 2023, 4-5:30 pm CEST Description Ecological crises are often the result of carelessness. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, calls to care about and for more-than-human beings and ways of being, ecological communities, and the earth itself…
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Blue Humanities – Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls…
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The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies
The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies Conference organized by Simon Ferdinand and Colin Sterling | 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam | Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023. Keynote Speaker: Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017) For this two-day, single-stream,…
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John Parham – Obituary
It is with deep sadness that we learn of the death of our friend and colleague John Parham. While most strongly involved in our sister organisation ASLE-UKI, John was also well-known and close to many EASLCE members and a frequent participant in our conferences. John was a highly esteemed ecocritical scholar and a very kind,…
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“Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature“ (Palgrave, 2023)
About this book This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles…
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Ecocriticism and the Island : Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago – Pippa Marland (Rowman and Littlefield, December 2022). Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” This book…
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10 ième Congrès d’EASLCE / 10th EASCLE Symposium – CFP
10th EASLCE bi-annual Symposium/10ième Congrès bi-annuel EASCLE European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment Perpignan, June 17-20 2024 Early-Bird Registration Deadline: March 5th Registration fees will be posted on Feb 5. 2024 Early-bird registration will be open until March 5th 2024 Speakers at the conference will have to register before April…
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EASLCE Webinar: The Blue Humanities: Aquatic Materialisations Beyond the Sea
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…
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Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices, Vernon Press, 2022.
Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique,…
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Summary of the 20th EASCLE Webinar: Unruly Plants: Interspecies Relations as Challenges for Literary and Cultural Studies
Hosts: Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (USA) & Dr. Solveig Nitzke, University Dresden (Germany) For the 20th EASLCE webinar, we left our offices made of grey concrete and instead immersed ourselves in the world of “Unruly Plants.” We started off with debating the characteristics that make a plant unruly. We thought about unruly plants’…
