Tag: Ecocriticism
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EASLCE Webinar: Ecological Immunity and Biopolitics in the Anthropocene with Hannes Bergthaller
Environmentalist discourse has familiarized us with the idea that human beings are members of the “ecological community,” and that this membership comes with obligations that our species has sorely neglected…
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Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel Astrid Bracke
The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction.
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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to…
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Voices from the Anthropocene: Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino
Environmental Humanities Voices from the Anthropocene Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a time when the narrative and theoretical…
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Call for Applications-Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature
Call for Applications 5th Annual Workshop of the Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Working-class Environmentalism: Reframing the Interface between Society and Nature 9-10th November 2017 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy “Labour deserves the critical attention of green thinkers because it is both integral to the functioning and reproduction of our environmentally rapacious economy, and…
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The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community- 8th Biennial EASLCE Conference
Arguably one of the most alluring environmental images, the garden enjoys a poetic, aesthetic, and mythological presence across many cultures and throughout all ages…
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EASLCE Essay Prize in European Ecocriticism
EASLCE Essay Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists in a grant of 400 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference…
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EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2016 With Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Friday, March 4, 2016 (10 am CET) (Please register by February 22, 2016) Social Systems Theory and the Environmental Humanities Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, elaborated in a vast archipelago of texts between the 1970s and his death in 1998, remains one…
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SYMPOSIUM FIGUREN DES ÖKOLOGISCHEN
Eröffnungskolloquium des Interfakultären Forums für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies The Interdisciplinary Forum for Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS) is a consortium of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences and the sciences interested in promoting the institutionalization of the Environmental Humanities and Cultural Animal Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. A symposium…
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