Tag: Ecocriticism
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19th EASLCE Webinar: EASLCE Webinar Oil and Gender in European Fiction and Film
Dr. Julia Leyda, NTNU Trondheim, and Dr. Katie Ritson, Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich Time and Date: 31 March 2022, 10:00 CET (Central European Time) In this seminar we will consider Cara Daggett’s concept of petro-masculinity and how this translates in the context of European petrocultures. The cultural face of oil dependence has been…
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CFP: W. S. Merwin Across Borders
Université de Paris/ ENS Ulm, Paris, France, October 20-21, 2022 Plenary speaker: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa “Is it I who have come to this age /or this age that has come to me.” In “Not early or late,” a poem from his last collection Garden Time, W. S. Merwin’s question speaks to the convening of this…
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CFP: Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies
Call for Papers Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 16-18, 2022 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: ▪ Paola Cavalieri (Etica & Animali; The Helsinki Group, www.cetaceanrights.org) (Online) ▪ Monica Gagliano (The University of Western Australia) (In-person) ▪ Douglas Vakoch (METI International) (In-person) There have been many…
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‘The Garden & The Dump’- two-day online conference
Aarhus University is pleased to announce ‘The Garden & The Dump’, a two-day online conference on the multitude of ways of seeing, thinking, and living ecology through visual art, cinema, magic and philosophy. The conference will include thesis seminars by Nicolai Skiveren and Aliya Say and feature talks by Timothy Morton, Michael Marder, and Chen…
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EASLCE Newsletter Winter 15.2 2021
New EASLCE Newsletter Winter 15.2 2021! Dear EASLCE-members and friends, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley”, Robert Burns sentenced more than two centuries ago in his poem “To a Mouse”. Indeed they do! Without any warning, irrespective of our species, an imprudent plough or a regal submicroscopic pathogen can…
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News: Summary of the 17th EASLCE Webinar: Transversal Aesthetics
Host: Dr André Krebber, University of Kassel, Germany Participants: Julia Ditter, Northumbria University, United Kingdom (co-ordinator) Lena Pfeifer, University of Würzburg, Germany (co-ordinator) G. J. Hilton, Birmingham University, United Kingdom Molina Klingler, University of Würzburg, Germany Melina Lieb, University of Mainz, Germany Stefano Rozzoni, University of Bergamo, Italy On 2 March, a group of aspiring…
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Noted: Ekphrasis Journal: The Anthropocene and Intermedial Ecocriticism
Ekphrasis Journal Ekphrasis is a semi-annual, double-blind, peer-reviewed online journal of The Faculty of Theater and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. This journal is dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches in visual culture and publishes peer-reviewed articles from any field related to contemporary media and image related productions. Ekphrasis concentrates both on research and theory, and on practical…
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CFP; Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene
Special panel at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Swansea University, 2-4 September, 2020. Please note the extended deadline: 24 April, 2020 The environmental challenge to our collective existence is both more urgent, and more intractable, than ever before. As ‘global heating’ looks likely to surpass…
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CFP: ECOCRITICISM AND OLD NORSE STUDIES
Fourth Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 26-27 November 2020 Ecocriticism, that is, research on the relationship between literature, culture and environment, is a rapidly growing field. With some exceptions, the focus of ecocritical research so far has been on the present and the recent past. However,…
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EASLCE 14th Webinar: Ecocritics Going Public: Using Our Knowledge for Public Good
Scott Slovic, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USA EASLCE Webinar Date and time: April 5th, 10am PST / 7pm CET Many students, teachers, and researchers have been drawn to the environmental humanities because of a desire to contribute, through academic work, to the well-being of society and the planet—but sometimes practitioners feel unprepared…
