Tag: Ecocriticism
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“Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities”
Call for Papers Postgraduate Workshop: “Ecological Othering and Biopolitics in the Environmental Humanities” 10-11 October 2014, Munich, Germany The development of modern environmental thought and environmental discourses is inextricably intertwined with the historical expansion of colonialism and imperialism. European colonial occupation and settlement of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas depended on the notion that…
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ASLE TRANSLATION GRANTS
ASLE TRANSLATION GRANTS New ASLE Grants to Translate Ecocritical Books into English In order to support work in ecocriticism from international scholars and to expand exchanges across cultures and continents, the ASLE Committee for Translations seeks proposals for books to be translated into English. Proposed books should be ecocriticism or fiction/non-fiction with a clear relationship to…
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Cultural and Literary Animal Studies
Journal of Literary Theory Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015) Cultural and Literary Animal Studies Guest Editor: Roland Borgards (University of Würzburg, Germany) In recent years, animal studies have become established as an important interdisciplinary field of research. Cultural and literary studies, too, have dealt in a new way with the discourse on animals and the…
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The Anthroposcene: Artists and Writers in Critical Dialogue with Nature and Ecosystem
Please join us for “The Anthroposcene: Artists and Writers in Critical Dialogue with Nature and Ecosystems” 17-18 June 2014 at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University in Canberra. The pre-conference workshop will be held in conjunction with our biennial conference, this year on the theme “Affective Habitus,” 19-21 June, also at ANU. An…
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Workshop & Conference: Imagining Earth at Zukunftsakademie NRW
Workshop & Conference Imagining »Earth« Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ 29.-31.05.2014 Zukunftsakademie NRW, Humboldtstr. 40; 44787 Bochum (Germany) Web: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/imagining-earth Contact: Solvejg Nitzke [email protected] Title: Imagining Earth. Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of ›Our Home Planet‹ To call upon the ›whole Earth‹ has become a common way to evoke significance.…
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Call for papers: Nature strikes back!
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.…
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Public Lecture Competition: The 2014 INSPIRE Lecture on Literature and Sustainability
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…
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Intensive Graduate Summer Course -The Reykjavik Academy, University of Akureyri, and Mid Sweden University
Announcing a unique graduate course in integrated environmental humanities to take place in northern Iceland 1-15 August 2014. The Svartarkot intensive graduate summer course (10 ECTS) is co-organized by The Reykjavik Academy, University of Akureyri, and Mid Sweden University, in close cooperation with NABO (The North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation), NIES (The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies) and GHEA (The…
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ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, 30-31 July 2014, University College Dublin
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,…
