Tag: Ecocriticism
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Green Letters 21(1) – Modern warfare and the environment
Green Letters 21(1) Modern warfare and the environment A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath those clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile…
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ENVIRONMENTAL UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS AS FORMS OF RESISTANCE, OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION
Dear all, We would like to notify that due to people’s demands we will extend the deadline for applications (of short bio and cover letter — and preferred presentation format: paper, chapter or poster) until the end of the month (July 31). Find the CFP attached. Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Workshop 2015, KTH…
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Call for Papers; Energy Use and the Humanities
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2016 Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue will include papers that explore the intersection of the various Humanities disciplines, with the production and consumption of energy sources, such as petroleum, natural gas, nuclear energy, solar and wind power, and coal (this is only a partial list and papers that explore…
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Webinar Spring 2015 The Dark Pastoral
EASLCE Webinar Spring 2015 May 21st at 7pm CEST With Prof. Heather I. Sullivan The Dark Pastoral CONTEXT: As a trope, the “dark pastoral” engages the controversy in ecocriticism and environmentalism about which cultural forms are most productive for re-imagining the human and non-human interactions in the Anthropocene during what appears to be the Earth’s sixth…
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DAAD German Studies Seminar 2015
DAAD German Studies Seminar 2015 Nature in Thought and Image: The Ecological Imagination from Romanticism to the Present University of Chicago July1-August 12, 2015 David E. Wellbery LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought University of Chicago The atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen (Max Planck Institut für…
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CFP: Underwater Worlds
CFP: Underwater Worlds: Aquatic Visions in Art, Science and Literature, University of Oxford, 15-16 September 2015. What lies beneath the surface of the water? From sirens and sea monsters to shipwrecks and the drowned city of Atlantis, the unseen depths of oceans, lakes and rivers have formed the canvas for countless imaginative visions and stories.…
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Call for Book Chapters: Ecofeminist Intersections
When d’Eaubonne coined the word “ecofeminism” in 1974, related ideas were already being discussed in a range of social sciences and humanities. Within anthropology Ortner (1974) argued that the universal devaluation of women relative to men could be explained by assuming that women are seen as being closer to nature than men, while men are seen as being more…
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Stacy Alaimo Webinar: Bodily Natures, Anthropocene Subjects
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,…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Green Letters 20(1)
‘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…
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Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23 – 27, 2015 University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho www.uidaho.edu/asle THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE (INCLUDING SUBMISSIONS PAGE) WILL BE LIVE IN SEPTEMBER, 2014 Already even then I had my underground world in…
